Edward Fitzgerald Quotes

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• A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
• Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.
• The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
• The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
• Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.
• There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
• I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her…
• If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a…
• I am all for the short and merry life.
• And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One…
• The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor…
• Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of…
• Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry: 'Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup…
• Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know…
• I sent my soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And…
• If there is no hell, why in heavens name not?
• I come like Water, and like Wind I go.

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