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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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John Masefield
Age: 88 †
Born: 1878
Born: June 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 12
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
County of Herefordshire
John Edward Masefield
Longest
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Life

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From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary sonI bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.
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The luck will alter and the star will rise.
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On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.
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Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.
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To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.
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O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.
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And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.
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The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.
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Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.
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His face was filled with broken commandments.
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Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.
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Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.
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Man cannot call the brimming instant back Time's an affair of instants spun to days If man must make an instant gold, or black, Let him, he may but Time must go his ways. Life may be duller for an instant's blaze. Life's an affair of instants spun to years, Instants are only cause of all these tears.
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Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
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In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.
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I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.
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The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
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It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
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