Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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