“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.”
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
