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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
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Laleham
Surrey
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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For poetry the idea is everything the rest is a world of illusion.
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What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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