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He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave


Matthew Henry

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MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath; Tonight it doth inherit Th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prev...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: "Eternity, be thou ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND