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"Ere the parting hour go by, Quick, thy tablets, Memory!"
Matthew Arnold[W]ithout order there can be no society, and without society there can — Matthew Arnold
"[W]ithout order there can be no society, and without society there can be no human perfection."
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother of both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. He has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. He was also an inspector of s
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"Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city’s jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar."
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"We, in some unknown Powers employ, Move on a rigorous line; Can neither, when we will, enjoy, Nor, when we will, resign."
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"Hark! ah, the nightingale — The tawny-throated! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark! — what pain!"
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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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"Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man, taken by himself."
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