George Crabbe
An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.Collection: Men
There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.Collection: Mind
Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.Collection: Design
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.Collection: Home
Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.Collection: Dream
Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin.Collection: Sin
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.Collection: Book
Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.Collection: Lying
And took for truth the test of ridicule.Collection: Truth
In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.Collection: Grieving
We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.Collection: Heart
Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.Collection: Writing
Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.Collection: Fashion
With eye upraised his master's look 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.Collection: Friendship
Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.Collection: Quality
Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.Collection: Sacred
Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.Collection: Love
I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.Collection: Paint
Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.Collection: May
'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.Collection: Son
I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.Collection: Fields
Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.Collection: Men
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Air
The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.Collection: Coward
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.Collection: Pain
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!Collection: Strong
Good is done by degrees.Collection: Degrees
"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.Collection: Dark
He tried the luxury of doing good.Collection: Luxury