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A. E. Housman Quote - Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

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

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White in the moon the long road lies.
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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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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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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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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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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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