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 ARNOLDIs 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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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 true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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