Alive Quote by Matthew Arnold

“To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.”

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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

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Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

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Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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