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A. E. Housman Quotes

«In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.»
«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.»
«Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.»
Author: A. E. Housman (Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: ale, fellows
«Lovers lying two by two / Ask not whom they sleep beside, / And the bridegroom all night through / Never turns him to the bride.»
Author: A. E. Housman (Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: bridegroom
«The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.»
Author: A. E. Housman (Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: keeper
«Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.»
Author: A. E. Housman (Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: globe, overcoat
«And the feather pate of folly / Bears the falling of the sky.»
Author: A. E. Housman (Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: feather, pate
«Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.»
Author: A. E. Housman (Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: lads, lays, underground
«May will be fine next year as like as not: / Oh ay, but then we shall be twenty-four.»
Author: A. E. Housman (Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: twenty-four
«The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.»
Author: A. E. Housman (Poet, Scholar) | About: Law and lawyers | Keywords: decree

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