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A. E. Housman has 83 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 if we…
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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 of wonder…
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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 the tower…
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home…
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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 was Burton…
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
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How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!
— Anne Frank
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At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander…
— George Eliot
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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.
— Julia Child
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How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
— Thomas Cole
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it…
— E. M. Forster
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How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.
— Carl Sagan
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Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!
— Thomas Merton
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If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like…
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