Thomas Hood Quotes

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• Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
• There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.
• Bells are musics laughter.
• When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?
• I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear…
• The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!
• The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!
• No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!
• There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

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