John Masefield Quotes, Years Quotes, Soul Quotes

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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But he has gone, A nation's memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.

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

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

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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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His face was filled with broken commandments.

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The luck will alter and the star will rise.

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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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To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

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Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

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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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Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

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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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All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

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

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It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

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