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'Twas good advice, and meant,
"My son, be good."
Topic: Advice
Source: The Learned Boy (vol. V, tale XXI)
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Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Authorship
Source: The Parish Register (pt. I, introduction)
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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."
Topic: Churches
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.
Topic: Churches
Source: The Borough (letter II, l. 11)
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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!
Topic: Conscience
Source: Struggles of Conscience (last lines)
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The coward never on himself relies,
But to an equal for assistance flies.
Topic: Cowards
Source: Tale III-The Gentleman Farmer (l. 84)
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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.
Topic: Experience
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.
Topic: Experience
Source: Parish Register (pt. III)
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The face the index of a feeling mind.
Topic: Faces
Source: Tales of the Hall
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A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
Topic: Fish
Source: The Parish Register (pt. II)
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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.
Topic: Fishing
Source: Peter Grimes
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Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood,
He tried the luxury of doing good.
Topic: Goodness
Source: Tales of the Hall (bk. III)
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Habit with him was all the test of truth;
"It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
Topic: Habit
Source: The Borough (letter III)
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Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.
Topic: Heart
Source: The Borough (letter XVII)
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All green was vanished save of pine and yew,
That still displayed their melancholy hue;
Save the green holly with its berries red,
And the green moss that o'er the gravel spread.
Topic: Holly
Source: Tale of the Hall
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But monument themselves memorials need.
Topic: Monuments
Source: The Borough (letter II)
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In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.
Topic: Paradise
Source: The Borough Players (letter XII)
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His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains,
But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.
Topic: Patience
Source: The Borough (letter XVII)
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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?
Topic: Poetry
Source: The Village (bk. I)
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Cut and come again.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Tales VII (l. 26)
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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.
Topic: Quackery
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.
Topic: Quackery
Source: The Borough (letter VII, l. 75)
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To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
Topic: Repentance
Source: Tales of the Hall (bk. III, Boys at School, last line)
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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.
Topic: Ridicule
Source: Tales of the Hall (bk. VIII, l. 126)
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And took for truth the test of ridicule.
Topic: Ridicule
Source: None
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But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.
Topic: Right
Source: Tales (tale XV, The Squire and the Priest)
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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.
Topic: Sin
Source: Hell of Justice (pt. II)
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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.
Topic: Snow
Source: Inebriety
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Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home,
Thence will applause, and hence will profit come;
And health from either--he in time prepares
For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
Topic: Temperance
Source: The Borough (letter XVII, l. 198)
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The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak;
She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
Topic: Wives
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.
Topic: Wives
Source: Tales--The Learned Boy
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