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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

A. E. Housman

To justify God’s ways to man.
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God Justification Man One Liner Way
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Enough Journey Sleep Time
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 could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Animal Definition Myself Poetry
Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Poetry Words Writing
All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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Knot Lover Sever Tie Untrue
I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Choose Rid Words
The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers’ meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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Fame Fleeting Lover Luck Thoughts Trouble
White in the moon the long road lies.
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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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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Agree Discuss Fact Feeling One Liner Right Word Wrong
Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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Grief Land Love Myself Stand Tree
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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Conceal Country Cunning
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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Bloom Flower Nature Tree

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

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