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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.
Fear
Leaping
Inspirational
Failures
Come
Pulling
Life
Horse
Meditation
Succeed
Failure
Half

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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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Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
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For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
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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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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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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
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Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.
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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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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
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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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Fuss is the froth of business.
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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.
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The year's in wane There is nothing adorning The night has no eve, And the day has no morning Cold winter gives warning!
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The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.
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