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 ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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 bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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