Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWho hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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