William Ernest Henley

“Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid.”

“Life is the game that must be played.”

“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”

“Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.”

“My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

“In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud.”

“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll.”