I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist) and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.A. E. Housman
Good night ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England.
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And fire and ice within me fight Beneath the suffocating night.
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He stabs me to the heart against my wish.
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. 'Come all to church, good people' Oh, noisy bells, be dumb I hear you, I will come.
A. E. Housman
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