It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIs 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?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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