Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and 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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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