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Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
Thomas Hood
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Thomas Hood
Age: 45 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 23
Died: 1845
Died: May 3
Humorist
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London
England
T. H.
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My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.
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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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