George James Hopkins

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“What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.”
—David Lloyd George (1863–1945)

“Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to lay a train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must
Disappointment all I endeavour end?”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)