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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
Journalist
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Laleham
Surrey
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
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I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.
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