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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
School Inspector
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Writer
Laleham
Surrey
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Others
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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All the live murmur of a summer's day.
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To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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To the Bible men will return and why? Because they cannot do without it.
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ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.
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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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