"Men may scoff, and men may pray, But……" — William Ernest Henley
"Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain."
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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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Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on…
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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 Every Pleasure Quotes
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All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which…
— Meher Baba
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Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
— Samuel Johnson
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The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said…
— Carrie Chapman Catt
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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
— Oscar Wilde
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the…
— Israel Shenker
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and…
— Hermann Hesse
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To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too…
— Louisa May Alcott
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it…
— John Piper
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Break your every dream, every pleasure collapse angered by themselves are seen
— Mak_786
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