We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
A. E. HOUSMANThe average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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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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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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