Matthew Green Quotes
Matthew Green's verses drift like a calm sea, offering thoughtful reflections on bias and balance.
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Nor bigots who but one way see, Through blinkers of authority.
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To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, Some recommend the bowling green; Some, hilly walks; all, exercise; Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
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Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
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Avarice, sphincter of the heart.
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Thus I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
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Though pleased to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
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They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.
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Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
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Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.
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“It's very strange to be an imaginary friend. You can't be suffocated and you can't get sick and you can't fall and break your head and you can't catch pneumonia. The only thing that can kill you is a person not believing in you.”
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“No matter what happens, I don’t think that anyone will remember me when I disappear. It will be like I was never here. There will be no proof that I ever existed … you can’t be sad if you disappear, because disappeared people can’t feel sad. They can only be remembered or forgotten.”
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“In love the artless catch the game, And they scarce miss who never aim.”
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“I hated Pinocchio. I think I was the only one in the class who hated him. Pinocchio was alive, but that was not enough for him. He could walk and talk and touch things in the real world, but he spent the whole book wanting more. Pinocchio didn’t know how lucky he was.”
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“Everyone gets so worried about the people who are still living when the people who are really hurting are the dead ones. People like Grandma and Graham.They don’t exist anymore. There is nothing worse than that”
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“It's hard to not worry, because trying not to worry reminds me that I should be worried”
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“The world can be so complicated for Max. Even when he gets something right, it can still go wrong.”