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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

A. E. Housman

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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Collection Count Curse Himself Strength
Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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Dance Drink World
When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Enough Journey Sleep Time
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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Conceal Country Cunning
This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they’re in trouble And I am not.
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June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
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Heaven Himself Hope Store Warm
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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Believe Humanity Long Luck Moment Pain Painful Struggle
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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Goodness Sick World
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Business Life Men Motivation Think Thinking Young
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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Die Drop Fall Sky Stars
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Animal Definition Myself Poetry
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Human Knowledge Precious Service
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Drink Fellow Hurt
Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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Earth Heaven High Strong
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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Content Lost Myself Plain Shine

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