"For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green in the old countrie."

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Source : William Ernest Henley (2015). “A Selection of Poems”, p.141, Read Books Ltd

William Ernest Henley

#Home Quotes #Sea Quotes #Tree Quotes

“I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.”
“As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars a week for 10 weeks, and created one hundred million dollars in new [checkbook] currency, which alleviated the critical famine of money and credit, and the factories started hiring people again.”
“The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.”
“In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.”
“Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.”
“People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely.”
“For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.”

Source : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing
“I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.”

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