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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
Poet
Writer
London
England
T. H.
Half
Fear
Leaping
Inspirational
Failures
Come
Pulling
Life
Horse
Meditation
Succeed
Failure

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When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
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The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.
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I remember, I remember The roses, red and white, The violets, and the lily-cups, Those flowers made of light! The lilacs, where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburmum on his birthday,- The tree is living yet.
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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
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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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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
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She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.
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O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
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I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.
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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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Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
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Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.
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Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.
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Fuss is the froth of business.
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