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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.
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
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O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!
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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes Ah, would that I did too!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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