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Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

Matthew Arnold

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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
Writer
Laleham
Surrey
Deepest
Religion
Voice
Experience
Human
Humans

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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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