Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals.


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Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
MATTHEW GREEN
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Or to some coffee-house I stray,
For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp
MATTHEW GREEN
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just oursel...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather t...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder pas...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
MATTHEW PRIOR
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX
At night astronomers agree.
MATTHEW PRIOR
I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye wi...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.
MATTHEW PRIOR
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
To err is human.
MATTHEW PRIOR
The end must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR
I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Brave...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-top...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD