Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGreatness 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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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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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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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