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 ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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