I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.


Matthew Shipp

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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
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden an...
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
Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY
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
We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
MATTHEW HENRY
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the tri...
MATTHEW HENRY
In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t...
MATTHEW STEWART
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...
MATTHEW PRIOR