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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.
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For poetry the idea is everything the rest is a world of illusion.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open To all always true.
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It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.
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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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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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Thought and science follow their own law of development they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ...The prophetic soul, Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.
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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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Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said!
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes but not this alone.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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