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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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An idealist believes the short run doesnt count. A cynic believes the long run doesnt matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney J. Harris

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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. – Calvin Coolidge

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

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Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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