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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.
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
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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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Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
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The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.
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