Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGreatness is a spiritual condition.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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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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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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