George Crabbe Quotes
Top 53 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Crabbe
George Crabbe Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.
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?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.
"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.