All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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