I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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