“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'”
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.