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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing fo

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. – Matthew Arnold

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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. – Matthew Arnold

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Men
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Matthew Arnold
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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold

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America
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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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Growth
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Hope
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad

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Hope

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self. – Hugh Laurie

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Hope

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab peoples attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope The Woods does that. – Harlan Coben

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Hope

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? – Rose Kennedy

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Hope

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The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members Dining Room. I dont often eat in them, though, as Im usually on the run. – Vince Cable

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Food

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold. – Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes

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Winter

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. – James Russell Lowell

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Bores

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful. – Chris ODowd

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Jealousy