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 ARNOLDForce and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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