Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLDKnow, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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