Wise conduct is the key to happiness. Always rule by gods a… - Seamus Heaney

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Wise conduct is the key to happiness.
Always rule by gods and reverence them.
Those who overbear will be brought to grief.
Fate will flail them on its winnowing floor
And in due season teach them to be wise.

Seamus Heaney

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About Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests.
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That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.

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