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All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.
Richard Le Gallienne
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Richard Le Gallienne
Age: 81 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 20
Died: 1947
Died: September 15
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City of Liverpool
Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Thomas Le Gallienne
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To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,But 'tis so far away - and you are near.Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but hereMen talk of hell, - there is no hell but hereMen of hereafters talk, and future lives,O love, there is no other life - but here.
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Celestial spirit that doth roll The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: I will arise.
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Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters, Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters. Happy the man.
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Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
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Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.
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A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
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