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 ARNOLDBusiness could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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