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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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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination…
— Beatrice Webb
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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out…
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable…
— William Ernest Henley
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Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and…
— Richard Shusterman
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As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.
— Randy Owen
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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art…
— Alain de Botton
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If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the…
— John Muir
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quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of…
— Gregory Maguire
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I nodded, chewing my own syrup-soaked bite. "But surely that's not all there is to it. I mean, really? A big picnic?…
— Rachel Vincent
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Imagine if you had everything you ever desired, everything you wanted, what would you do so wonderful for the world besides waste…
— Billy Vincent
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