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«My race being run, I love to watch the race»
Author: John Masefield
«Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir/ Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, / With a cargo of ivory, / And apes and peacocks,/Sandalwood, cedarwood and sweet white wine.»
Author: John Masefield
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«And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.»
«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.»
Author: John Masefield
«Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.»
Author: John Masefield
«Success is the brand on the brow of a man who has aimed too low.»
Author: John Masefield
«In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.»
Author: John Masefield
«The luck will alter and the star will rise.»
Author: John Masefield
«Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.»
Author: John Masefield
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