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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.


William Ernest Henley

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Thick is the darkness--
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway--
Onward, still o...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Master of masters,
O maker of heroes,
Thunder the brave,
Irresistible message:
'...
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WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods ma...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his day's work en...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but ...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires Shine and are changed. In the valley...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon ...
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WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusio...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chan...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the ma...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature&...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend, With love that...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing, A patriarch that strolls Through the ten...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Here is a promise Of summer to be.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality i...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever go...
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WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Night with her train of stars / And her great gift of sleep.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the mi...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, rev...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the starless night that covers me,
(O tribulation of the wind that rolls!)
Black ...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or,...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of do...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look for...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look for...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
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WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the de...
VIRGINIA HENLEY Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
DON HENLEY A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
DON HENLEY I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I...
DON HENLEY You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know,...
ANTHONY HENLEY I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
BETH HENLEY I think that people have to be able to see two sides of the coin to survive because it is a racist s...
BETH HENLEY I think I had a job in a children's theatre. I taught badly because I was into nihilism at the time ...
BETH HENLEY I remember not knowing what a cue light was because I'd never worked in a production that was high c...
BETH HENLEY I love writing for the screen.
BETH HENLEY I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
BETH HENLEY I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
BETH HENLEY I didn't really know how to get it to a producer or how to get it to an agent. Nobody's going to loo...
BETH HENLEY I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
BETH HENLEY But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a ...
BETH HENLEY Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun
DON HENLEY "He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to ...
BETH HENLEY What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn&...
BETH HENLEY I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politic...
DON HENLEY I find it hard to believe that a horoscope would be ""true"" for 1/12 of the population that are all...
ANJIE HENLEY When its snowing like this, you better at least ""like"" who you live with.
ANJIE HENLEY having a "Conscious" is not learned by nature or nuture , it is not hereditary or inherited , and yo...
ANJIE HENLEY If you always need to catch up on something , does that mean that you were never caught up to begin ...
ANJIE HENLEY When I was your age, son, we didn't even have a damn Guitar Hero, we had to play AIR boy, you hear m...
ANJIE HENLEY Photographer: [fah-tog-ruh-fer]-noun A person who has resorted to using a camera to record and e...
ANJIE HENLEY It was an easy decision for me which books to self-publish as ebooks. I got the rights back to two A...
VIRGINIA HENLEY I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiw...
VIRGINIA HENLEY I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in su...
DON HENLEY I have always been drawn to the Restoration period of Charles II. I have a soft spot for Charles Stu...
VIRGINIA HENLEY Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
BETH HENLEY I like individuality in fashion - it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of...
GEORGIE HENLEY I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for ...
VIRGINIA HENLEY I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords...
VIRGINIA HENLEY The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas...
BETH HENLEY I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good acto...
GEORGIE HENLEY I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those art...
DON HENLEY the difference between classy and trashy correlates to assertive and aggressive
ANJIE HENLEY There is a shortage, a national deficit of people that are looking for people to love and allow othe...
ANJIE HENLEY It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
BETH HENLEY When it came down to crunch time, their kids made the plays and ours didn't.
DAVID HENLEY [Henley said his family has tempered his outlook.] I think there's more of a balance in the music, ....
DON HENLEY It's time to get down to the heart of the matter. And I think it's about forgiveness?even if you don...
DON HENLEY Dirty Laundry
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Comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the pla...
DON HENLEY The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked ...
BETH HENLEY Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.
DON HENLEY Business continues to be extremely robust, which makes us bullish on the second quarter and the rest...
JEFF HENLEY Business continues to be extremely robust, which makes us bullish on the second quarter and the rest...
JEFF HENLEY I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes m...
VIRGINIA HENLEY The Boys of Summer,
DON HENLEY I'm sure The Eagles will go into the studio eventually, probably in the fall after we get back and g...
DON HENLEY Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution li...
DON HENLEY Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this di...
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ANJIE HENLEY I was either standing in your shadow, or blocking your light; Though I kept on trying I could not ge...
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ANJIE HENLEY Unlike a Garden, a friendship needs two tenders in order for it to grow
ANJIE HENLEY When all you can afford is peanut butter, at least make peanut butter cookies!
ANJIE HENLEY When God wakes up, he turns on the sun
ANJIE HENLEY When you wish out loud, magic happens
ANJIE HENLEY When the world gives us harsh cold winds our true friends, like our favorite blanket, wraps us up in...
ANJIE HENLEY People just made up that old saying about sticks and stones............ they lied
ANJIE HENLEY as I lose my eyesight my vision improves .....
ANJIE HENLEY don't ever give up on the fairy tale........... when you do it becomes certain that it will never ha...
ANJIE HENLEY Its not about the SIZE of the equipment or the PRICE TAG either, its all about how you use your equi...
ANJIE HENLEY ANY RELATIONSHIP (family, friends, lovers, etc) ............ takes two to "tend to it" if you don't ...
ANJIE HENLEY life should be as easy as mario makes it.........you just jump a few hurdles, kill a few monsters an...
ANJIE HENLEY You cannot grow sunflowers with poison ivy seeds
ANJIE HENLEY They say that blood is thicker than water............. well so is TAR baby........... and don't forg...
ANJIE HENLEY When its snowing like this, you better at least "like" who you live with.
ANJIE HENLEY I think sometimes it would be good to tear my heart from my chest and bury it in my yard and then sa...
ANJIE HENLEY Sometimes not talking about it , is the best way I know to talk about it.
ANJIE HENLEY I find it hard to believe that a horoscope would be "true" for 1/12 of the population that are all b...
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ANJIE HENLEY Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will ta...
DON HENLEY It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having ...
BETH HENLEY I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
DON HENLEY Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group t...
DON HENLEY The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been endi...
DON HENLEY In this case, it was much colder than forecast, not only for our systems, but other systems in the a...
TOM HENLEY But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, a...
BETH HENLEY A last-second loss just crushes you. Tonight it was a 19-point game. In a game like that, you slowly...
DAVID HENLEY In our last two games we had double-digit leads and lost because we quit playing defense. That was p...
DAVID HENLEY We played really well in the first half. We played hard on defense and moved the ball. When we do th...
DAVID HENLEY That's got to be creeping into (our players') minds a little bit. But they still found a way to win.
DAVID HENLEY He always gives us a lift.
DAVID HENLEY It's better to be sitting here talking about playing poorly and winning than going home with a loss.
DAVID HENLEY I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right ...
DON HENLEY That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at le...
BETH HENLEY You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with...
BETH HENLEY Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre depa...
BETH HENLEY The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan ...
BETH HENLEY Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York...
BETH HENLEY My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisi...
BETH HENLEY It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so ma...
BETH HENLEY In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
BETH HENLEY I'm very into the first production of the show.
BETH HENLEY I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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BETH HENLEY Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can reall...
BETH HENLEY Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, real...
BETH HENLEY My fault now is making my plays too short.
BETH HENLEY I'm not really sure what we'll do there. We'll have to work through what comes across from Optus and...
GARRY HENLEY We have to ask, 'where are the crossovers in knowledge'.
GARRY HENLEY In the next six to twelve months, we'll be substantially bigger and growing in this space.
GARRY HENLEY We had to reinforce with our staff that [the takeover] makes sense. We are the catalyst to help driv...
GARRY HENLEY As rates rise, there would be more demand because most investors are interested in protecting themse...
HENLEY SMITH We thrive on volatility. That's better for me because it will broaden my trading ranges that we can ...
HENLEY SMITH The argument in the bond market is not that it's inflationary but it's a drag on disposable income, ...
HENLEY SMITH We're slowing down our growth in spending in Asia, but we're not going into a retrenchment mode. Tha...
JEFF HENLEY Nine months ago, we set out to save one billion dollars annually by using our own Internet e-Busines...
JEFF HENLEY Nobody knows exactly how this year is going to play out, ... We do know there was a bubble of spendi...
JEFF HENLEY A billion dollars in annual savings translates to a 10-point improvement in our margins. We did bett...
JEFF HENLEY We have an enormous sales pipeline for both applications and technology, ... Typically that's proven...
JEFF HENLEY As far as we can tell, technology spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft an...
JEFF HENLEY Our assumption is that the U.S. economy will continue to improve, at least gradually, but technology...
JEFF HENLEY Our visibility going forward remains very limited, as has been the case for the last 18 months,
JEFF HENLEY Solid execution in the field, a strengthening competitive position, and an improving economy contrib...
JEFF HENLEY Given the difficult global economy and the increasing uncertainty caused by the impending war in Ira...
JEFF HENLEY Coach (Lavin) has been telling us to crash the net, so that is what I did on that play. Everyone kne...
TOM HENLEY Feminism was a dirty word. Women's issues weren't being adequately covered.
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BARRY SHABAKA HENLEY You saw every strata of the African American community, ... the doctor, the janitor, the guy who jus...
BARRY SHABAKA HENLEY Saturday, May 22d.---It is now Saturday night, and I must prepare for the holy Sabbath. My Bible and...
JAMES HENLEY THORNWELL Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics thi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt abo...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of oth...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things tha...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and writ...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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