Edward Fitzgerald Quotes

Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone that is what I learn as I get old.

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I sent my soul through the Invisible,<br/>Some letter of that After life to spell: <br/>And by and by my Soul return'd to me,<br/>And answer'd I Myself am Heav'n and Hell.

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

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Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, / The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: / How oft hereafter rising shall she look; / Through this same Garden after me - in vain!

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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head

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Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less

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Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

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I am all for the short and merry life.

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