Quote by Laurence Housman
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training,

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. – Laurence Housman

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Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. – Laurence Housman

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Trust
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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. – Laurence Housman

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Religion
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It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion – death brought them into harmony. – Laurence Housman

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Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance. – Jim Clyburn

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The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. – Nigel Farage

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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. – Alice James

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

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Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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