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Life Quotes by William Ernest Henley
- Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind…
- 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 ever.
- And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
- 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 shrink…
- The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms…
- The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him…
- It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of…
- I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
- Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.
- Life - life - let there be life!
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