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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

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Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: June 13th, 1865

Died: January 28th, 1939

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