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George Crabbe
English
Poet
About the author
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
#Gain
To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
#Friend
#Praise
With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
#Eye
#Man
#Poor
#Friend
#Joy
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
#Life
#World
#Experience
#Mind
#Effort
#Courage
#Mankind
The game is never lost till won.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
#Friends
#Experience
#Help
#Nature
#Heaven
Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
#Love
#Nothing
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
#Will
#Hurt
#May
#Land
#Lie
#Fish
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
George Crabbe,
English
Poet
#Will
#Wisdom