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Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

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
Body
Made
Mind
Men
Untrustworthy
Faulty
Remarkable
Imagination

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The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.
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Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.
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The days that make us happy make us wise
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Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.
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Life's battle is a conquest for the strong The meaning shows in the defeated thing.
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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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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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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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Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely white unwritten book A book that God will take, my friend, As each goes out at journey's end.
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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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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
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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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I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
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I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.
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