Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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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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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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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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