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A E Housman Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Here dead we lie because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young Picture Quote #1

Tell me not here, it needs not saying, what tune the enchantress plays in aftermaths of soft September or under blanching Mays, for she and I were long acquainted and I knew all her ways Picture Quote #1

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions Picture Quote #1

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The difference between an icicle and a red hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind Picture Quote #1

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man Picture Quote #1

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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 (A E Housman Quotes) Here dead we lie because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young (A E Housman Quotes) Tell me not here, it needs not saying, what tune the enchantress plays in aftermaths of soft September or under blanching Mays, for she and I were long acquainted and I knew all her ways (A E Housman Quotes) Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions (A E Housman Quotes) Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young (A E Housman Quotes) 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 (A E Housman Quotes) The difference between an icicle and a red hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind (A E Housman Quotes) Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man (A E Housman Quotes)

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