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7 John Davidson Quotes

John Davidson delivers sharp, cynical musings on struggle, society, and death that feel like a bitter cup of truth.

John Davidson quotes

  1. Business - the world's work - is the sale of lies: Not goods, but trade-marks; and still more and more In every branch becomes the sale of money.

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  2. One must become Fanatic - be a wedge - a thunder-bolt To smite a passage through the close-grained world.

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  3. Mere by-blows are the world and we, And time within eternity A sheer anachronism.

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  4. Farewell the hope that mocked, farewell despair That went before me still and made the pace. The earth is full of graves, and mine was there Before my life began; my resting-place.

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  5. Unwilling friend, let not your spite abate; Help me with scorn, and strengthen me with hate.

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  6. Seraphs and saints with one great voice Welcomed that soul that knew not fear. Amazed to find it could rejoice, Hell raised a hoarse, half-human cheer.

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  7. And the difficultest job a man can do, Is to come it brave and meek with thirty bob a week, And feel that that's the proper thing for you. It's a naked child against a hungry wolf; It's playing bowls upon a splitting wreck; It's walking on a string across a gulf With millstones fore-and-aft about your neck; But the thing is daily done by many and many a one. And we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck.

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