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Quote by Matthew Arnold
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern. – Matthew Arnold

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat. – Matthew Arnold

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Cats
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Matthew Arnold
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Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
Belief
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Retirement
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. – Branch Rickey

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Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache… unless you play golf. – Gene Perret

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Retirement

Dont you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Johann von Goethe

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Retirement

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Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience. – Tommy Mottola

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The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. – Goldwin Smith

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Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. – Proverb

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