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That all men would be cowards if they dare,Some men we know have courage to declare. — George Crabbe
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
— George Crabbe
There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.
— George Crabbe
Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.
— George Crabbe
And took for truth the test of ridicule.
— George Crabbe
I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.
— George Crabbe
Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.
— George Crabbe
Life is not measured by the time we live.
— George Crabbe
Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.
— George Crabbe
Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.
— George Crabbe
Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
— George Crabbe
Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.
— George Crabbe
Life's bloomy flush was lost.
— George Crabbe
Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.
— George Crabbe
I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.
— George Crabbe
He tried the luxury of doing good.
— George Crabbe
What is a church?-Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
— George Crabbe
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
— George Crabbe
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
— George Crabbe
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
— George Crabbe
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? — George Crabbe
Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.
— George Crabbe
Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mindMore just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind. — George Crabbe
'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
— George Crabbe
In this wild world the fondest and the bestAre the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. — George Crabbe
Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.
— George Crabbe
Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.
— George Crabbe
Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.
— George Crabbe
But monument themselves memorials need.
— George Crabbe
Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.
— George Crabbe
An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.
— George Crabbe
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
— George Crabbe
Good is done by degrees.
— George Crabbe
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
— George Crabbe
The game is never lost till won.
— George Crabbe
"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.
— George Crabbe
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
— George Crabbe
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.
— George Crabbe
Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin.
— George Crabbe
Ease leads to habit, as success to ease.He lives by rule who lives himself to please. — George Crabbe
Learning is better worth than houses or land.
— George Crabbe
In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
— George Crabbe
Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.
— George Crabbe
A master passion is the love of news.
— George Crabbe
