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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!
Thomas Hood
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Thomas Hood
Age: 45 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 23
Died: 1845
Died: May 3
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London
England
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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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Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
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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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Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.
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Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
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No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, . . . . . . No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.
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The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.
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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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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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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
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Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.
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