"The life of Dumas is not only a……" — William Ernest Henley
"The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind."
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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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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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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most…
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness…
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known…
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
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The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the…
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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
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