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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.
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Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
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Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.
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Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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