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“Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.”
― The Letters of the Younger Pliny
― The Letters of the Younger Pliny
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
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“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
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“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
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