Quotes of A. E. Housman - somelinesforyou

“ In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. ”

- A. E. Housman

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

- A. E. Housman

“ Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ 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

“ 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

“ The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ 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

“ Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. ”

- A. E. Housman
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