John Clare Short Quotes

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If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

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Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

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When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?
No, rather smile away despair;

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Dear Sir,—I am in a madhouse and quite forget your name or who you are.

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In politics and politicians' lies
The modern farmer waxes wondrous wise;

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He could not die when the trees were green,
For he loved the time too well.

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The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life.

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My life hath been one chain of contradictions,
Madhouses, prisons, whore-shops.

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I am! yet what I am who cares, or knows?
My friends forsake me like a memory lost.

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They took me from my wife, and to save trouble
I wed again, and made the error double.

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Throw not my words away, as many do;
They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

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Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

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Hopeless hope hopes on and meets no end,
Wastes without springs and homes without a friend.

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Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

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Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain;
The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain.

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There came the snail from his shell peeping out, As fearful and cautious as thieves on the rout.

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Till kicked and torn and beaten out he lies
And leaves his hold and cackles, groans, and dies.

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Arts may ply fantastic anatomy but nature is always herself in her wildest moods of extravagance.

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Language has not the power to
speak what love indites:
The soul lies buried
in the ink that writes.

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Superstition lives longer than books, it is engraved on the human mind 'til it becomes a part of its existence.

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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

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I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place... and can return no more.

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I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe.

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The wind and clouds, now here, now there,
Hold no such strange dominion As woman's cold, perverted will,
And soon estranged opinion.

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And what's more wonderful, when big loads foil
One ant or two to carry, quickly then
A swarm flock round to help their fellow-men.

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The ivyed oaks dark shadow falls
Oft picking up with wondering gaze
Some little thing of other days
Saved from the wreck of time.

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I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

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To-morrow comes, true copy of today,
And empty shadow of what is to be;
Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,
And ends but only when our being ends.

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Popularity is a hasty and busy talker, she catches hold of topics and offers them to fame without giving herself time to reflect whether they are true or false.

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Say maiden wilt thou go with me In this strange death of life-to-be To live in death and be the same Without this life or home or name At once to be and not to be

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