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Far more I feared all company: too sharp, too rude,
Had been the wisest or the dearest human voice.
What I desired I knew not, but whate'er my choice
Vain it must be, I knew.

— Edward Thomas

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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

There is nothing at the end of any road better than may be found beside it.

To envy a man is to misunderstand him or yourself.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.

The simple lack
Of her is more to me
Than others' presence.

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