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

Greatness is a spiritual condition. – Matthew Arnold

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold

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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold

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

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

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