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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.

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.
Turns
Burn
Lives
Letters
Pages
May
Behinds
Great
Behind
Men
Ought
Leave
Turn
Remind

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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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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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A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :: Must be a spoon.
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Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.
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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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There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
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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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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.
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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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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
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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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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.
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No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.
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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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When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
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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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Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.
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