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 ARNOLDYes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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