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A. E. Housman

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A. E. HOUSMAN The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. HOUSMAN Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sha...
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun...
A. E. HOUSMAN The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, an...
A. E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. HOUSMAN I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A. E. HOUSMAN The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and canno...
A. E. HOUSMAN Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my k...
A. E. HOUSMAN And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.
A. E. HOUSMAN And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.
A. E. HOUSMAN White in the moon the long road lies.
A. E. HOUSMAN We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plan...
A. E. HOUSMAN Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again.
A. E. HOUSMAN But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their...
A. E. HOUSMAN They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and...
A. E. HOUSMAN Lovers lying two by two / Ask not whom they sleep beside, / And the bridegroom all night through / N...
A. E. HOUSMAN Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.
A. E. HOUSMAN Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.
A. E. HOUSMAN Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills...
A. E. HOUSMAN Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.
A. E. HOUSMAN Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the ...
A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.
A. E. HOUSMAN The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not awa...
A. E. HOUSMAN The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down a...
A. E. HOUSMAN The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.
A. E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.
A. E. HOUSMAN Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I.
A. E. HOUSMAN Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am...
A. E. HOUSMAN No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.
A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland...
A. E. HOUSMAN Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the jour...
A. E. HOUSMAN When he died he had the body of an 84-year-old man, but a spirit of an 11- or 12-year-old boy.
JAMES REILLY The guy was so freaking old, he should have retired. Or died.
RICHELLE MEAD Part of me died when he died. You've got a 17-year-old who went to his grave for something he did no...
DAVID GARZA Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.
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IBRAHIM JAABER And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
BIBLE My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
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RON GARDINER He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equiva...
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SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE He died a hero,
FRANCO FRATTINI And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural f...
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ERICH SEGAL I communicated with him regularly on e-mail. He was always upbeat about the war and believed in what...
BOB MARIANO The 22-year-old man died at 2 p.m. He was the vendor from a traditional market and the only positive...
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JOHN C. HAWKES He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying a...
STEPHEN KING Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which ca...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m...
BRIAN COX We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year.
ERIKA SLEZAK When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS Bunk! Pure bunk! For all I know Yellow Hand died of old age.
LARRY MCMURTRY Never judge a person how he died, but how he lived.
RUDOLF JEROME RAGAY His business died overnight. But he just shifted his focus to making power windows for those restori...
ROBBY WHITEHEAD Laugh! I thought I should 'ave died, / Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road.
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STEPHEN KING He must have made that before he died.
YOGI BERRA He died in tower two.
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TOM FOLEY He died very peacefully with a smile on his face.
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IRV SLOSBERG He died preparing to serve others,
JAMES GASTON We confirm that he tragically died.
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MARK TWAIN When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.
CHEN GUANGBIAO My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man<...
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E'YEN A. GARDNER Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
E'YEN A. GARDNER Life is simple, just be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER Come out of hiding, don't be afraid to be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our h...
E'YEN A. GARDNER However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we ...
E'YEN A. GARDNER If there is no door to your dream, create one.
E'YEN A. GARDNER Patience is learned through waiting
E'YEN A. GARDNER I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
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