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A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. Journey of the Magi (l. 1-3). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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For like a mole I journey in the dark,
A-travelling along the underground
(John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. Thirty Bob a Week (l. 13-14).
OAEL-2. Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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Our journey had advanced;
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. Our journey had advanced (l. 1). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.
(Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Remarks, October 3, 1913, on signing the tariff bill. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 28, p. 351, ed. Arthur S. Link.
Tariff reform was followed by currency reform, Wilson's other half of that particular journey.)
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
(William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. Table Talk, "On Going a Journey," (1821-1822).)
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
(Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of Myself," sct. 31, Leaves of Grass (1855).)
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey.
(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. Essays, bk. 1, ch. 19 (1580), trans. by John Florio (1603).
Referring to the possibility of death.)
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For when the gallows is high
Your journey is shorter to heaven.
(Unknown. The Night before Larry Was Stretched (l. 57-58). . .
New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press.)
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For dawn takes away a third part of your work, and advances a man on his journey, and advances him in his work.
(Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.), Greek didactic poet. Works and Days, 578.)
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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
(George Sand (1804-1876), French novelist. "Final Comment by George Sand," (written, Sept. 1868) published in The Intimate Journal of George Sand (1929).)
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