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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.
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
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If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no 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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Force and right are the governors of this world force till right is ready.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun.
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Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
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ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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