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Force and right are the governors of this world force till right is ready.
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily.
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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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Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.
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Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection it is a study of perfection.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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