Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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