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
MATTHEW ARNOLDGreatness is a spiritual condition.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always 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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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