John Clare Quotes, Drinking Quotes, Enemy Quotes

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 persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

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The thorn tree just began to bud And greening stained the sheltering hedge, An many a violet beside the wood Peeped blue between the withered sedge; The sun gleamed warm the bank beside, 'Twas pleasant wandering out a while Neath nestling bush to lonely hide, Or bend a musings o'er a stile.

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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 best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

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I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

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I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

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Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print

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Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with their melodies, Till noon burns with its blistering breath Around, and day lies still as death.

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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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And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

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When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

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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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Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never done Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun And green wood fly and blossom haunting bee Are never weary of their melody Round field hedge now flowers in full glory twine Large bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine That lift athirst their slender throated flowers Agape for dew falls and for honey showers These round each bush in sweet disorder run And spread their wild hues to the sultry sun.

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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 gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

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How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

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Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.

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This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

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To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

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Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.

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