William Ernest Henley Quotes

• “It matters not how strait the gate,
  How charged with punishments the scroll,
  I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “Out of the night that covers me,
  Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
  I thank whatever gods may be
  For my unconquerable soul.
  
  In the fell clutch of circumstance
  I have not winced nor cried aloud.
  Under the bludgeonings of chance
  My head is bloody, but unbowed.
  
  Beyond this place of wrath and tears
  Looms but the Horror of the shade,
  And yet the menace of the years
  Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
  
  It matters not how strait the gate,
  How charged with punishments the scroll,
  I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “O, it's die we must, but it's live we can,
  And the marvel of earth and sun
  Is all for the joy of woman and man
  And the longing that makes them one.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “Out of the starless night that covers me,
  (O tribulation of the wind that rolls!)
  Black as the cloud of some tremendous spell,
  The susurration of the sighing sea
  Sounds like the sobbing whisper of two souls
  That tremble in a passion of farewell.
  
  To the desires that trebled life in me,
  (O melancholy of the wind that rolls!)
  The dreams that seemed the future to foretell,
  The hopes that mounted herward like the sea,
  To all the sweet things sent on happy souls,
  I cannot choose but bid a mute farewell.
  
  And to the girl who was so much to me
  (O lamentation of this wind that rolls!)
  Since I may not the life of her compel,
  Out of the night, beside the sounding sea,
  Full of the love that might have blent our souls,
  A sad, a last, a long, supreme farewell.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “Beyond this place of wrath and tears
  Looms but the Horror of the shade,
  And yet the menace of the years
  Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “Master of masters,
  O maker of heroes,
  Thunder the brave,
  Irresistible message:
  'Life is worth living
  Through every grain of it
  From the foundations
  To the last edge
  Of the cornerstone, death.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “Under the bludgeonings of chance,
  My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “Thick is the darkness--
  Sunward, O, sunward!
  Rough is the highway--
  Onward, still onward!
  Dawn harbors surely
  East of the shadows.
  Facing us somewhere
  Spread the sweet meadows.
  Upward and forward!
  Time will restore us:
  Light is above us,
  Rest is before us.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “I am the master of my fate,
  I am the captain of my soul.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “It matters not how strait the gate,
  How charged with punishments the scroll,
  I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “Acı ve gözyaşlarıyla dolu bu mekanın ötesinde, sadece gölgelerin dehşeti hüküm sürer.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “Out of the night that covers me,
  Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
  I thank whatever gods may be
  For my unconquerable soul.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my soul.”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “I am the master of my fate :
  I am the captain of my soul”

  William Ernest Henley

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• “And yet the menace of the years / Finds and shall find me unafraid. -”

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