"In a land where sport is sacred, Where……" — Henry Lawson
"In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod."
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Henry Lawson
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14 Quotes by Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson has 14 quotes on this site.
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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting…
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It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every…
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I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.
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It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are…
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The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred…
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Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to…
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Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
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Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high…
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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from…
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And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to…
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Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our…
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More Clod Quotes
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one of 30 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the…
— William Cowper
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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never…
— Mark Twain
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Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible…
— William Shakespeare
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War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod....
— Hilda Doolittle
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Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
— Ian McHarg
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The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant…
— Eric Butterworth
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings…
— Carl Sagan
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I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye…
— Jane Kenyon
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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being…
— George Bernard Shaw
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God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.
— Robert Browning
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Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the…
— Mikhail Naimy
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