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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the

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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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

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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

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. – Herbert Hoover

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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. – William F. Buckley

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to ones distance from the problem. – John Galsworthy

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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. – Francis Herbert Hedge

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