Quotes from George Crabbe

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

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.

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.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.

Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys, Are never valued till they make a noise.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

A master passion is the love of news.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

Wild were his dreams, and oft he rose in fright,Waked by his view of horrors in the night,—Horrors that would the sternest minds amaze,Horrors that demons might be proud to raise:And though he felt forsaken, grieved at heart,To think he lived from all mankind apart,Yet, if a man approached, in terrors he would start.

With friends and gay companions round them, thenMen boldly speak and have the hearts of men;Who, with opponents seated, miss the aidOf kind applauding looks, and grow afraid.

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.

Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!

At certain stations he would view the stream,As if he stood bewildered in a dream,Or that some power had chained him for a time,To feel a curse or meditate on crime.

Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth.

E quibus, hi vacuas implent sermonibus aures:

Who comes? - Approach! - 'tis kindly done: - My learn'd physician, and a friend, Their pleasures quit, to visit one

Lo! at his throne the silent nymph appears, Frail by her shape, but modest in her tears; And while she stands abash'd, with conscious eye, Some favourite female of her judge glides by, Who views with scornful glance the strumpet's fate, And thanks the stars that made her keeper great:

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.