"Great literature should do some good to the……" — A. E. Housman
"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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84 Quotes by A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman has 84 quotes on this site.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and…
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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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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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure…
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in…
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy…
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Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them…
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Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why…
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but…
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More Blunt Quotes
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
— Chinua Achebe
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which…
— Max Beerbohm
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I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
— Tupac Shakur
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Just hit the blunt one time and see if it don't change your perception on whats important in your life.
— Katt Williams
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
— Thomas Paine
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
— Eric Hoffer
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The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous.…
— Gregory Bateson
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He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making,…
— William Shakespeare
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Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the…
— Astley Cooper
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Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally…
— Alan Dershowitz
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One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide…
— Unknown Author
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