Quote by Matthew Arnold
Greatness is a spiritual condition. - Matthew Arnold

Greatness is a spiritual condition. – Matthew Arnold

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With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern. – Matthew Arnold

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Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold

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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. – Alexis Carrel

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. – Jean Baudrillard

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. – Elizabeth Bowen

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