Thomas Hood Quotes

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• A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
• Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
• Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
• The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
• She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had…
• No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road,…
• The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made…
• For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
• He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.
• A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
• When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!
• I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish…
• Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!
• How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of…
• Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.
• Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought…
• Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!
• How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
• My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
• Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

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