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Matthew Arnold Quotes: Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
         

Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.


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He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.



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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!



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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.





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