John Masefield Quotes, Travel Quotes, Stars Quotes

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

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I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

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God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

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Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.

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So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.

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The days that make us happy make us wise

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Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

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I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

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Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

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On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.

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I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

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In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.

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The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black.

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Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

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The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.

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From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

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When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

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Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

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Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely white unwritten book; A book that God will take, my friend, As each goes out at journey's end.

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