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William Ernest Henley has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses,…
• Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
• 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.
• So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark…
• Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
• Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my…
• Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.
• A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.
• Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all…
• 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…
• [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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