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Only the heel
Of splendid steel
Shall stand secure on sliding fate,
When golden navies weep their freight.

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

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More quotes by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

All the old statues of Victory have wings: but Grief has no wings. She is the unwelcome lodger that squats on the hearthstone between us and the fire and will not move or be dislodged.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm
Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

Not as we wanted it,
But as God granted it.

O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
For where I am I would not be,
And where I would be I can not.

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