The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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 is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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