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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
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Laleham
Surrey
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English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away Down and away below!
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
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Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said!
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If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.
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ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.
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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes Ah, would that I did too!
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world force till right is ready.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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