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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More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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