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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
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Yea, howso we dream,
Or how bravely we do;
The end is the same,
Be we traitor or true:
And after the bloom
And the passion is past
Death comes at last.
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Art was a palace once, things great and fair,
And strong and holy, found a temple there
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Paradox was with him only Truth standing on its head to attract attention.
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The cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain,
For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.
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There's too much beauty upon this earth
For lonely men to bear.
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Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."
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Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
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Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Richard Le Gallienne
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Born:
January 20, 1866
Died:
September 15, 1947
(aged 81)
Bio:
Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne was his daughter, by his second marriage.
Known for:
The Worshipper Of The Image (1900)
The Quest of the Golden Girl (1896)
Prose Fancies (1894)
The Book-bills of Narcissus (1891)
Vanishing Roads And Other Essays (1915)
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