George Crabbe

Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.

— George Crabbe

'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.

— George Crabbe

The game is never lost till won.

— George Crabbe

Good is done by degrees.

— George Crabbe

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

— George Crabbe

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

— George Crabbe

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

— George Crabbe

I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.

— George Crabbe

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

— George Crabbe

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

— George Crabbe

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

— George Crabbe

Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.

— George Crabbe

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

— George Crabbe

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

— George Crabbe

In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.

— George Crabbe

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform…

— George Crabbe

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile…

— George Crabbe

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a…

— George Crabbe

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit…

— George Crabbe

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred…

— George Crabbe

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and…

— 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

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

— George Crabbe

A club there is of smokers--dare you come To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room? When, midnight past, the very candles seem…

— George Crabbe

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds…

— George Crabbe

Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies…

— George Crabbe

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You…

— George Crabbe

Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil! Who from destruction save us; who from spoil Protect the sons of peace, who traffic…

— George Crabbe

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…

— George Crabbe

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,…

— George Crabbe

Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory;…

— George Crabbe

When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears, A sable void the barren earth appears; The meads no more their former verdure boast,…

— George Crabbe

To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that…

— George Crabbe

How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would…

— George Crabbe

Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check…

— George Crabbe

Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance…

— George Crabbe

This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved,…

— George Crabbe

Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the…

— George Crabbe

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

— George Crabbe