"Men there have been who have done the……" — William Ernest Henley
"Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable."
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William Ernest Henley
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31 Quotes by William Ernest Henley
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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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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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