"I am all for the short and merry…" — Edward Fitzgerald
"I am all for the short and merry life."
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Edward Fitzgerald
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17 Quotes by Edward Fitzgerald
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A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
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Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.
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The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
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The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
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Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.
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There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the…
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If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who…
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And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder…
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to…
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Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the…
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Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry: 'Awake, my Little…
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