"Night with her train of stars And her…" — William Ernest Henley
"Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep."
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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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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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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 Gift Quotes
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness…
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God…
— Saint Augustine
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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
— Richard Bach
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm…
— Erykah Badu
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I…
— Erykah Badu
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance…
— Oksana Baiul
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced…
— Javier Bardem
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
— Bruce Barton
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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