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Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.

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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
Journalist
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Poet
School Inspector
University Teacher
Writer
Laleham
Surrey
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Abides
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Cannot
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Thine
Men
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Live
Cities
Mars
Feel
Dies
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