Quote by A.E. Housman
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happ

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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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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Idealism
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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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Poetry
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But fame is theirs – and future days
On pillard brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell – when cold neglect is dead –
These for their country fought and bled. – Philip Freneau

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Remembrance

Eulogies are like babies. Theyre more pleasurable to create than to deliver. – Bob Blazich

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Remembrance

Remembrance of things past. – William Shakespeare

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Remembrance

may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

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Remembrance

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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. – Aesop

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