John Clare Quotes
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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
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I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.
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How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree
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Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.
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Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.
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I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.
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The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
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I am the self-consumer of my woes,
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I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
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I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do with—they…
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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride Jump out all…
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Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born,…
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So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smoke and…
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The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of…
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If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
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Forgive me if, in friendship’s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed between,…
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Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to…
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In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose…
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For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the…
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