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I have been an Official all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

William Allingham

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William Allingham
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: March 19
Died: 1889
Died: November 18
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Writer
Life
Handle
Trifles
Sea
Official
Turn
Attain
Least
Gravity
Turns
Artificial
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Highly
Ludicrously
Without
Officials
Disproportionate
Never
Manner
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History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?
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Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.
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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory blast Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes, Or grim wide wave and now the power is felt Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.
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One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.
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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
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Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!
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Sin we have explain'd away Unluckily, the sinners stay.
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A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
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If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
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Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waterswide.
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Pluck not the wayside flower It is the traveler's dower.
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I believe in Success, And in Comfort no less I believe all the rest is but patter.
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Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!
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Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!
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The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.
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Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear.
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