Thomas Hood Quotes
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'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
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A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
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A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
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English I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
[Memory]
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Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
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Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold
[Gold]
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
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It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.
[Cruelty]
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Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. - The associate of Pope and Addison, the mind accustomed to the noble though silent discourse of Shakespeare and Milton, will hardly seek or put up with low or evil company and slaves.
[Books]
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No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
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O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head!
[Evenings]
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O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
[Poverty]
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Oh! would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now And have a good cry!
[Tears]
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Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
[Bread]
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Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering "Home, Home at last!"
[Home]
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
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The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
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The poor dear dead have been laid out in vain; tumed into cash, they are laid out again.
[Biography]
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