The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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