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 ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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