Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
A. E. HOUSMANAnd malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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