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

George Crabbe

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George Crabbe
Age: 79 †
Born: 1754
Born: December 24
Died: 1834
Died: February 3
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Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.
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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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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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Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing, Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring But Man alone has skill and power to send The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend 'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.
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Arrogance is the act of the great presumption that of the little.
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I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.
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See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.
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We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.
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Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
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Lawyers Are: By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.
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