The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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