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Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.
William Allingham
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William Allingham
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: March 19
Died: 1889
Died: November 18
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One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.
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Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.
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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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Pluck not the wayside flower It is the traveler's dower.
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Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
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Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.
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Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
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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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Autumn's the mellow time.
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The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.
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Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.
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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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Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.
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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.
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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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Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!
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She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
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