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William Ernest Henley Quotes: Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
         

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.


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beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade



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It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.



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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.



Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.

Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.



So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.



Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.



Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.



Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.



Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.



O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)





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