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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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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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Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
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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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While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.
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O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
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Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.
Thomas Hood
Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.
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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.
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Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.
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Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
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The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.
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We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.
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There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
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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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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 Autumn is old The sere leaves are flying He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying- Old age, begin sighing!
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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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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
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When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
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