John Masefield Quotes, Happiness Quotes

The days that make us happy make us wise

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So shall I fight, so shall I tread, In this long war beneath the stars; So shall a glory wreathe my head, So shall I faint and show the scars, Until this case, this clogging mould, Be smithied all to kingly gold.

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Love is a flame to set the will on fire

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Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

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The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

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And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

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When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When the last fire is out and the last guest departed Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.

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Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

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

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And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

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The luck will alter and the star will rise.

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Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

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All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

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Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

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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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Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

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Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

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I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

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