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> [Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/life-is-worth-living-through-every-grain-of-it-from-the-foundations/)

[William Ernest Henley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-ernest-henley/)

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## More by William Ernest Henley

> [“It matters not how strait the gate. How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/it-matters-not-how-strait-the-gate-how-charged-with-punishments-the/)

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> [Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/life-is-a-smoke-that-curls-curls-in-a-flickering-skein-that-winds-and/)

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> [Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/into-the-winter-s-gray-delight-into-the-summer-s-golden-dream-holy/)

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> [ Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife… The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life… \[F\]ace to face with chance, I… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/behold-me-waiting-waiting-for-the-knife-the-thick-sweet-mystery-of/)

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> [Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/madam-life-s-a-piece-in-bloom-death-goes-dogging-everywhere-she-s-the/)

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> [Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/under-the-bludgeonings-of-chance-my-head-is-bloody-but-unbowed/)

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> [Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/shakespeare-and-rembrandt-have-in-common-the-faculty-of-quickening/)

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> [Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/who-but-knows-how-it-goes-life-s-a-last-year-s-nightingale-love-s-a/)

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> [beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/beyond-this-place-of-wrath-and-tears-looms-but-the-horror-of-the-shade/)

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> [Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you were a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/or-ever-the-knightly-years-were-gone-with-the-old-world-to-the-grave/)

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> [And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/and-lo-the-hospital-gray-quiet-old-where-life-and-death-like-friendly/)

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> [Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/now-to-read-poetry-at-all-is-to-have-an-ideal-anthology-of-one-s-own/)

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> [Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/were-i-so-tall-as-to-reach-the-pole-or-grasp-the-ocean-at-a-span-i/)

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> [So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/so-many-are-the-deaths-we-die-before-we-can-be-dead-indeed/)

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> [So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/so-be-my-passing-my-task-accomplished-and-the-long-day-done-my-wages/)

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