George Crabbe Quotes

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Habit with him was all the test of truth,
It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

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To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

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In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

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Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

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Beauties, when disposed to sleep,
Should from the eye of keen inspector keep:
The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise,
May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes;
Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes,
And all the homely features homelier makes.

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The ring, so worn as you behold,
So thin, so pale, is yet of gold.

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I hear those voices that will not be drowned calling.

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Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.

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With awe, around these silent walks I tread;
These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

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Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil!
Who from destruction save us; who from spoil
Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil;
Would I could duly praise you, that each deed
Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.

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In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

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The gentle fair on nervous tea relies,
Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes;
An inoffensive scandal fluttering round,
Too rough to tickle, and too light to wound.

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I paint the cot,
As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

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Involved in sea-wrack, here you find a race, Which science, doubting, knows not where to place; On shell or stone is dropp'd the embryo-seed, And quickly vegetates a vital breed.

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'What is a church?'—Our honest sexton tells,
''Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.'

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Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys,
Are never valued till they make a noise.

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What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain,
Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

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Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too late
Upon one of these depends his whole estate.

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That all men would be cowards if they dare,
Some men we know have courage to declare.

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Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools,
Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

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Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

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And need and misery, vice and danger bind
In sad alliance each degraded mind.

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Circles in water as they wider flow
The less conspicuous in their progress grow,
And when at last they trench upon the shore,
Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more.

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But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.

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