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All Quotes by author - John Masefield

" Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. "

" Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. "

" I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. "

" In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. "

" It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England? "

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

" Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it. "

" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "

" Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. "

" The luck will alter and the star will rise. "

" There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. "

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