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To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. Housman
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A. E. Housman
Age: 77 †
Born: 1859
Born: January 1
Died: 1936
Died: January 1
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Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.
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Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
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Clay lies still, but blood's a rover Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.
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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
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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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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.
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A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
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Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
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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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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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'Tis spring come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.
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