Oxus, forgetting the bright ...

Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.
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 Matthew Arnold

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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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 Matthew Arnold
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
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 Matthew Arnold
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
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 Matthew Arnold
There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail.
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 Matthew Arnold