"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not……" — John Masefield
"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult."
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46 Quotes by John Masefield
John Masefield has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
- People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them…
- His face was filled with broken commandments.
- The luck will alter and the star will rise.
- There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to…
- Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth
- Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.
- I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh…
- In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
- Love is a flame to set the will on fire
- Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.
- To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great…