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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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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to…
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Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her…
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The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion,…
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Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting…
— William Ernest Henley
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After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another…
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