Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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