Matthew Prior quote: "Or have you mark'd a partridge quake, Viewing the towering falcon nigh? She cuddles low behind the brake: Nor would she stay; nor dares she fly."

A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
MATTHEW PRIOR

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lay...
MATTHEW PRIOR

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
MATTHEW PRIOR

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR

They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
MATTHEW PRIOR

To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
MATTHEW PRIOR

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The ends must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR

I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
MATTHEW PRIOR

At night astronomers agree.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.
MATTHEW PRIOR

To err is human.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The end must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR

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

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...
MATTHEW PRIOR

And oft the pangs of absence to remove By letters, soft interpreters of love.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Ev'n so, with all submission, I . . . . Send you each year a homely letter, Who may retu...
MATTHEW PRIOR

They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR

In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul. To the late...
MATTHEW PRIOR

Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.
MATTHEW PRIOR

They always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
MATTHEW PRIOR

When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no,...
MATTHEW PRIOR

The winds grow high; Impending tempests charge the sky; The lightning flies, the thunder roars...
MATTHEW PRIOR

Serene yet strong, majestic yet sedate, Swift without violence, without terror great.
MATTHEW PRIOR

They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have benefici...
MATTHEW PRIOR

You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill, Of which you need no...
MATTHEW PRIOR

What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care.
MATTHEW PRIOR

When people once are in the wrong, Each line they add is much too long; Who fastest walks, but...
MATTHEW PRIOR

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]
MATTHEW PRIOR

He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Of two evils I have chose the least.
MATTHEW PRIOR

But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician, Cur'd yesterday of my d...
MATTHEW PRIOR

Bid the Devil take the slowest.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
MATTHEW PRIOR

As individuals we must create a collective. NFL's black players have a tremendous strength. This is ...
ANTHONY PRIOR

Southern Black players call the coach 'boss' or even 'master.' They ask questions they already know ...
ANTHONY PRIOR

I was frustrated by not seeing the truth in print. And I believe that if you want to see it, you sho...
ANTHONY PRIOR

I call [them] Hypocrites in Action. Almost every time, the minister is white, and the subject matter...
ANTHONY PRIOR

I release the trigger of my gun and drop it. Before I can lose my nerve, I turn and press my forehea...
TRIS PRIOR

It was unfortunate that it had come to this. I'm satisfied with the fact I was able to tell my side ...
MARK PRIOR

I got what I was looking for ? a ground ball ? and unfortunately, it took a bad hop.
MARK PRIOR

I've always said I didn't behave rudely. I just want to move on.
MARK PRIOR

Demand for natural gas is continuing to increase, and we're having to look to unconventional sources...
BILL PRIOR

The reason we're all here is the price of natural gas.
BILL PRIOR

This is a beautiful quiet neighborhood. Victoria Park is hot.
KATHLEEN PRIOR

[I was] not exactly sure why all the things were being advertised. It didn't resemble anything I had...
MARK PRIOR

It's not about personal achievements or personal wins, it's about winning as a team. We haven't won ...
MARK PRIOR

For the bench to play the way they did was humungous. We got 19 points from our bench tonight. In th...
DALE PRIOR

Unforced turnovers hurt us and they did a good job of capitalizing on them.
DALE PRIOR

This is his job. I respect the fact he wants to come back for the last two or three weeks of the sea...
MARK PRIOR

It's a cool idea, ... A lot of them come from the inner city or broken families where they might not...
MARK PRIOR

It's nice but it's not about personal achievements or personal wins -- it's about winning as a team,
MARK PRIOR

Henry had a great day. I'm glad he had a good day, especially after his birthday.
MARK PRIOR

Despite serious fighting in the region between the Chadian army and militias since late 2005, most p...
MARCUS PRIOR

The good harvest is good news for many Nigerians but there are also many who are reeling from the ef...
MARCUS PRIOR

People are killed. Their animals are looted. Their food stocks are burnt. They're chased from their ...
MARCUS PRIOR

The condition is not the selling feature of this home. The location is purely the selling feature.
KATHLEEN PRIOR

If I knew my neighbor sold their homes for $1 million I'd be counting my money. Wouldn't you?
KATHLEEN PRIOR

…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shar...
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR

…mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying ...
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR

God can carry on his own work, though all such poor tools as I were broken.
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR

A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhap...
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spo...
MATTHEW SWEET

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
MATTHEW STEWART

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends....
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I ...
MATTHEW SETTLE

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative...
MATTHEW SCULLY

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know w...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completel...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
MATTHEW QUICK

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
MATTHEW SHIPP

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.
MATTHEW QUICK

I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me i...
MATTHEW QUICK

Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they&...
MATTHEW DESMOND

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '...
MATTHEW LILLARD

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
MATTHEW MORRISON

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
MATTHEW MACFADYEN

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly rememb...
MATTHEW RHYS

I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and be...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,...
MATTHEW SETTLE

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.
MATTHEW MCGRORY

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ...
MATTHEW DESMOND

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&...
MATTHEW RHYS

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r...
MATTHEW LILLARD

Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dra...
MATTHEW SCULLY

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted ...
MATTHEW MACFADYEN

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t...
MATTHEW STEWART

I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan...
MATTHEW RHYS

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
MATTHEW ASHFORD

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ...
MATTHEW QUICK

Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...
MATTHEW SIMPSON

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW GREEN

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I kno...
MATTHEW QUICK

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...
MATTHEW LEWIS

We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.
MATTHEW BOULTON

There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac...
MATTHEW DICKS

Dare to Differ
MATTHEW GOLDFINGER

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And ...
MATTHEW SCULLY

Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making...
MATTHEW FOX

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how...
MATTHEW FOX

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
MATTHEW FOX

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD

That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home....
MATTHEW PERRY

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

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

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX

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

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

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

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

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

Or have you mark'd a partridge quake, Viewing the towering falcon nigh? She cuddles low behind the brake: Nor would she stay; nor dares she fly.

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Or have you mark'd a partridge quake, Viewing the towering falcon nigh? She cuddles low behind the brake: Nor would she stay; nor dares she fly.

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