<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37713" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Better Part</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man,<br>How angrily thou spurn’st all simpler fare!<br>“Christ,” some one says, “was human as we are;<br>No judge eyes us from Heaven, our sin to scan;<br>We live no more, when we have done our span.”<br>“Well, then, for Christ,” thou answerest, “who can care?<br>From sin, which Heaven records not, why forbear?<br>Live we like brutes our life without a plan!”<br>So answerest thou; but why not rather say:<br>“Hath man no second life?—Pitch this one high!<br>Sits there no judge in Heaven, our sin to see?—<br>More strictly, then, the inward judge obey!<br>Was Christ a man like us? Ah! let us try<br>If we then, too, can be such men as he!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a> from <i>Sonnets</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37713" data-title="The Better Part de Matthew Arnold" data-description="Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man,/How angrily thou spurn’st all simpler fare!/“Christ,” some one says, “was human as we are;/No judge eyes us from Heaven, our sin to scan;/We live no more, when we have done our span.”/“Well, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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