“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
