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.

Quote by A E Housman

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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull,...

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull,...

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways...

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways...

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull,...

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull,...

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the...

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the...

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a...

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a...

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the...

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the...

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell....

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell....

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over...

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over...

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a...

And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a...

I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and...

I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and...

And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the...

And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the...