Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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