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Day: February 20, 2019

Captain of My Soul ~ William Ernest Henley

Captain of My Soul ~ William Ernest Henley

Posted on February 20, 2019March 1, 2019 by Dr. Joel Ying, MD

“I am the master of my fate,  I am the captain of my soul.” William Ernest Henley wrote these often quoted lines of poetry in 1875 while in a hospital recovering from tuberculosis of the bone that required an amputation of one leg and surgery on the other. The title of the poem is “Invictus” …Read More

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