Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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