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William Ernest Henley has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses,…
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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
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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.
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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…
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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
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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…
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Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.
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A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.
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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…
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And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
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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…
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[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the…
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The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
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Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.
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The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
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During these times immediately ahead, the world will need many trumpets to sound the clarion call. The world will need many voices…
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The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his…
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The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But…
— William Ernest Henley
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age…
— Unknown Author
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual worldproclaim, One crowded hour of gloriouslife Is worth an age without a…
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