"The need of expansion is as genuine an……" — Matthew Arnold
"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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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…
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More Expansion Quotes
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
— Joe Biden
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For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a…
— Russ Carnahan
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.…
— Margaret Fuller
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To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope…
— Bill Frist
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Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All my career I've gone to teams on the decline. I went to Quebec when they were losing the Stastny…
— Ron Tugnutt
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It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which…
— Adolf Hitler
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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