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 ARNOLDHome of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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