"Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes……" — William Ernest Henley
"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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William Ernest Henley
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31 Quotes by William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley has 31 quotes on this site.
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which…
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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
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So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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,…
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Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and…
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More Bloom Quotes
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which…
— Emily Bronte
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine…
— Juvenal
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long…
— Yoshida Kenko
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With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the…
— Unknown Author
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the…
— Alex Faickney Osborn
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and…
— Maria Edgeworth
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As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Where flowers bloom so does hope.
— Lady Bird Johnson
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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
— Gerry Spence
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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
— Orison Swett Marden
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Bloom where you are planted!
— Mary Engelbreit
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