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Quote by Matthew Arnold
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need

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

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
Beauty
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Matthew Arnold
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Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat. – Matthew Arnold

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Cats
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Matthew Arnold
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Other Quotes from
Growth
category

Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke

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Growth

When a bonsai stops growing, you know its dead. – Japanese Proverb

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Growth

Love dies only when growth stops. – Pearl Buck

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Growth

Every winner has scars. – Herbert N. Casson

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Growth

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