QUOTES by A. E. Housman
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"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
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"To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before."
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"The heart from out the bosom Was never given in vain But bought with sighs aplenty And sold for endless rue And now I am two and twenty And oh tis true, tis true"
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"Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber Sunlit pallets never thrive; Morns abed and daylight slumber Were not meant for man alive."
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"There's this to say of love and breath -- They give a man a taste for death."
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"Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer."
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"Oh many a peer of England brews Lovelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man."
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"And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good."
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"And malt does more than Milton can/ To justify God's ways to man." - "Terence, This is Stupid Stuff"
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"First don: O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? Second don: State the alternative preferred, With reasons for your choice."
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"Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose."
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"The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail."
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"Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man."
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"The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; He has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware It has been eaten by a bear." "Infant Innocence"
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"Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write."
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"He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways."
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"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
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"Halt by the headstone naming The heart no longer stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word."
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"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
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"To stand up straight and tread the turning mill, To lie flat and know nothing and be still, Are the two trades of man; and which is worse I know not, but I know that both are ill."
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"Lie you easy, dream you light, And sleep you fast for aye; And luckier may you find the night Than ever you found the day."
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"Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young."
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"Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young."
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"June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould."
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"Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under."
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"The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came."
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