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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
School Inspector
University Teacher
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Laleham
Surrey
Poet
Coleridge
Wrecked
Opium
Mist
Philosopher

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In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.
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To the Bible men will return and why? Because they cannot do without it.
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Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.
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For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
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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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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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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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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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Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.
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Come, dear children, let us away Down and away below!
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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