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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

~Matthew Arnold

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It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.

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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.

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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

~Matthew Arnold

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: December 24th, 1822

Died: April 15th, 1888

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