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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Thomas Hood

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Thomas Hood
Age: 45 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 23
Died: 1845
Died: May 3
Humorist
Poet
Writer
London
England
T. H.
Rather
Copper
Others
Resemble
Going
Brass
Mind
Farther
Wire
Improve
Minds
Travel
Narrower

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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
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No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.
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With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
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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!
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What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust But faint the flagging zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me 'dust to dust.'
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Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
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A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
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When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
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