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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!
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Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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All the live murmur of a summer's day.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
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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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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
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Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.
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