| 33 Famous Quotes by George Crabbe
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“Feed the musician, and he's out of tune”
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“Cut and come again.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Tales VII (l. 26)
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“The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak;
She could not think, but would not cease to speak.”
Wives Quotes Source: Tales--Struggles of Conscience
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“Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead,
To find such numbers who will serve instead:
And in whatever state a man be thrown,
'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.”
Wives Quotes Source: Tales--The Learned Boy
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“Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?”
Poetry Quotes Source: The Village (bk. I)
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“Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend,
Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;
But if he will thy friendly checks forego,
Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!”
Conscience Quotes Source: Struggles of Conscience (last lines)
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“To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!”
Repentance Quotes Source: Tales of the Hall (bk. III, Boys at School, last line)
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“But monument themselves memorials need.”
Monuments Quotes Source: The Borough (letter II)
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“Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood,
He tried the luxury of doing good.”
Goodness Quotes Source: Tales of the Hall (bk. III)
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“Oh! rather give me commentators plain,
Who with no deep researches vex the brain;
Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,
And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.”
Authorship Quotes Source: The Parish Register (pt. I, introduction)
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“His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains,
But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.”
Patience Quotes Source: The Borough (letter XVII)
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“Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;
The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare,
And shed their substance on the floating air.”
Snow Quotes Source: Inebriety
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“"What is a church?" Let Truth and reason speak,
They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek,
From Christian folds, the one selected race,
Of all professions, and in every place."”
Churches Quotes Source: The Borough (letter II, l. 1)
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“"What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells,
'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.”
Churches Quotes Source: The Borough (letter II, l. 11)
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“But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.”
Right Quotes Source: Tales (tale XV, The Squire and the Priest)
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“The coward never on himself relies,
But to an equal for assistance flies.”
Cowards Quotes Source: Tale III-The Gentleman Farmer (l. 84)
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“Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ;
His wife he cabined with him and his boy,
And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.”
Fishing Quotes Source: Peter Grimes
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“A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.”
Fish Quotes Source: The Parish Register (pt. II)
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“Habit with him was all the test of truth;
"It must be right: I've done it from my youth."”
Habit Quotes Source: The Borough (letter III)
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“From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains,
Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;
These first induce him the vile trash to try,
Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”
Quackery Quotes Source: The Borough (letter VII, l. 124)
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“Void of all honor, avaricious, rash,
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--
Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill;
All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.”
Quackery Quotes Source: The Borough (letter VII, l. 75)
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“To show the world what long experience gains,
Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;
But at life's outset to inform mankind
Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.”
Experience Quotes Source: The Borough (letter VII, l. 47)
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“In her experience all her friends relied,
Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.”
Experience Quotes Source: Parish Register (pt. III)
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“Come, now again, thy woes impart,
Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin;
We cannot heal the throbbing heart
Will we discern the wounds within.”
Sin Quotes Source: Hell of Justice (pt. II)
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“Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school,
And took for truth the test of ridicule;
Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest,
Truth was with her of ridicule the test.”
Ridicule Quotes Source: Tales of the Hall (bk. VIII, l. 126)
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