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To the Bible men will return and why? Because they cannot do without it.
Matthew Arnold
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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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To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
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All the live murmur of a summer's day.
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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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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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