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...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
[Edmund] Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.
A wanderer is man from his birth. / He was born in a ship / On the breast of the river of Time.
Ah, love, let us be true / To one another! for the world, which seems / To lie before us like a land of dreams, / So various, so beautiful, so new, / Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, / Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.
Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well—but ’tis not true!
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Are ye too changed, ye hills? See, ’tis no foot of unfamiliar men Tonight from Oxford up your pathway strays! Here came I often, often, in old days— Thyrsis [Arthur Hugh Clough] and I; we still had Thyrsis then.
Be neither saint- nor sophist-led, but be a man!
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Arnold nasceu em Laleham, Surrey, em 1822. Ele estudou na Rugby School, onde seu pai era diretor, e no Balliol College, Oxford. Em 1843, ele ganhou o Newdigate Prize de poesia. Em 1847, ele se tornou secretário particular do Visconde de Lansdowne. Em 1851, casou-se com Frances Lucy Wightman. Ele foi nomeado professor de poesia em Oxford em 1857. Arnold publicou muitas obras, incluindo "The Strayed Reveller" (1849), "Empedocles on Etna" (1852) e "Sohrab and Rustum" (1853). Ele também escreveu ensaios críticos, como "Essays on Criticism" (1865) e "Culture and Anarchy" (1869). Arnold morreu em Liverpool em 1888, aos 65 anos.