The downgrade shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but it is a major issue for the refinancing, the core banks are in a catch 22, they can't all sell out at their desired price, whilst applying usual lending criteria is fraught with the risk that markets worsen and they are left holding the bag.

Robert Southey

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There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

magic-in-the-world circles home

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

missing-you i-miss-you friendship

By writing much, one learns to write well. by Robert Southey

By writing much, one learns to write well.

creative-writing wells writing

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed,... by Robert Southey

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

teaching teacher happiness

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love,... by Robert Southey

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

breathe love life

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heav... by Robert Southey

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

flames forever love

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

farewell goodbye friendship

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

three-things speech three

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

happiness memories years

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of th... by Robert Southey

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

would-be heart love

Man hath a weary pilgrimage, by Robert Southey

Man hath a weary pilgrimage,

They sin who tell us Love can die: by Robert Southey

They sin who tell us Love can die:

passion ambition life

There is healing in the bitter cup. by Robert Southey

There is healing in the bitter cup.

affliction cups healing

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

wish mind positive

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

practice life lying

Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.

wit born people

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

cities peace order

Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.

cat garden animal

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest h... by Robert Southey

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

funny-birthday long years