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 ARNOLDOnce read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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