Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGreatness 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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