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 ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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