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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing
This side of death,
Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring!

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

I am the master of my own fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

Life - life - let there be life!

So many are the deaths we die
Before we can be dead indeed.

Here is the ghost
Of a summer that lived for us,
Ere is a promise
Of summer to be.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Who but knows
How it goes!
Life's a last year's Nightingale,
Love's a last year's rose.

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.

I am the master of my fate, the captain of my soul

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.