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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open To all always true.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said!
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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