Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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