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A E Housman Inspirational Quotes (90)

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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
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His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust Bear the fruit that bear you must Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. Come all to church, good people- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb I hear you, I will come.
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These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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To justify God's ways to man.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
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Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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