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 ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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