Charles Sorley famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Strew your gladness on earth's bed, So be merry, so be dead.
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All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.
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When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain When it is peace. But until peace, the storm The darkness and the thunder and the rain.
-- Charles Sorley
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Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
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Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
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The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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