John Masefield Quotes

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• God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
• People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.
• His face was filled with broken commandments.
• The luck will alter and the star will rise.
• There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive…
• Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth
• Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.
• I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives…
• In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
• Love is a flame to set the will on fire
• Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.
• To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.
• It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.
• The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ...…
• Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want…
• Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement…
• Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
• Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.
• And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in…

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