You never know. They may figure something out. I know they want you.
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STEVEN ERIKSON Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you
both; and in any case have a nay-...
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Liv...
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But 'twas not love w...
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And drink of Adam's ale.
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To mortals is a providence.
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Lay...
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We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
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MATTHEW ARNOLD Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
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As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
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MATTHEW FOX Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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MATTHEW ARNOLD Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
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For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp
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She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
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Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
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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.
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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.
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It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful ...
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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.
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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