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 ARNOLDIt is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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It 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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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