Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover; Breath’s aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey’s over then there’ll be time enough to sleep.
A. E. HOUSMANThree minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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