| 62 Famous Quotes by Thomas Hood
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“Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street
Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--
She hates the smell of roses!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg
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“Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“A greater liar than the Parthians.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“A man of refined taste and judgment.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“A man perfect to the finger tips.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“A word once spoken cannot be recalled.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun.
Oh! it was pitiful!
Near a whole city full,
Home had she none.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: The Bridge of Sighs
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“The cowslip is a country wench.”
Cowslips Quotes Source: Flowers
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“At night, to his own dark fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.”
Night Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg and her precious Leg
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“O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.”
Beds Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Dream
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“For my part getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.”
Lying Quotes Source: Morning Meditations
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“With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread.”
Labor Quotes Source: Song of the Shirt
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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?”
Influence Quotes Source: Poem addressed to Rae Wilson
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“Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells
When on the undulating air they swim!”
Bells Quotes Source: Ode to Rae Wilson
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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.”
Bells Quotes Source: Song for the Million
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“Now, really, this appears the common case
Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday--
But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy?”
Sabbath Quotes Source: An Open Question (st. 1)
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“It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Song of the Shirt
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“The Quaker loves an ample brim,
A hat that bows to no Salaam;
And dear the beaver is to him
As if it never made a dam.”
Hatters Quotes Source: All Round my Hat
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