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 ARNOLDSanity — 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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