Top 79 George Crabbe Quotes
#1. The gentle fair on nervous tea relies,
Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes;
An inoffensive scandal fluttering round,
Too rough to tickle, and too light to wound.
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#2. 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?
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#3. What is a church?-Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
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#5. The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
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#6. Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.
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#7. Ease leads to habit, as success to ease.
He lives by rule who lives himself to please.
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#8. Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.
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#9. In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
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#10. Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
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#11. 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.
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#13. Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
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#14. But jest apart
what virtue canst thou trace
In that broad trim that hides thy sober face?
Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice
And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice?
Then for thine accent
what in sound can be
So void of grace as dull monotony?
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#16. We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.
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#17. Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
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#18. I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.
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#21. Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains,
And drives the mist of dullness from the brains,
The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies,
And views of gaiety and gladness rise.
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#22. Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory; men in public life often debate for the sake of opposing the ruling party, or from any other motive than the love of truth.
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#23. Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
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#25. 'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
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#26. Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.
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#29. Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.
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#30. To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
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#31. Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.
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#32. All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.
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#33. With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.
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#35. See Time has touched me gently in his race,
And left no odious furrows in my face.
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#36. Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.
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#39. A club there is of smokers
dare you come
To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room?
When, midnight past, the very candles seem
Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam;
When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise,
And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.
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#41. Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.
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#42. Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.
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#44. 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.
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#45. An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.
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#46. Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.
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#47. Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts, is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects.
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#48. Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind
More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.
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#50. Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil!
Who from destruction save us; who from spoil
Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil;
Would I could duly praise you, that each deed
Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.
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#51. Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.
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#52. Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.
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#53. The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.
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#54. A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
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#55. Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.
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#56. I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.
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#57. Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.
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#58. 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.
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#59. Beauties, when disposed to sleep,
Should from the eye of keen inspector keep:
The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise,
May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes;
Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes,
And all the homely features homelier makes.
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#60. Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
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#61. In this wild world the fondest and the best
Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.
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#62. To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.
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#66. Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.
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#68. Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views,
Life's little cares and little pains refuse?
Shall he not rather feel a double share
Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?
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#69. Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.
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#71. With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
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#72. That all men would be cowards if they dare,
Some men we know have courage to declare.
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#73. There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.
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#74. 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!
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#75. "Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.
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#76. Circles in water as they wider flow
The less conspicuous in their progress grow,
And when at last they trench upon the shore,
Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more.
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#77. Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!
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#78. 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.
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#79. 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.
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