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Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

A. E. Housman

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A. E. Housman
Age: 77 †
Born: 1859
Born: January 1
Died: 1936
Died: January 1
Classical Philologist
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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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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.
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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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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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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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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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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose but young men think it is, and we were young.
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On Wenlock Edge the wood's in troubleHis forest fleece the Wrekin heavesThe wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.
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