Matthew Arnold Quotes
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show. Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. 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. The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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