Thomas Hood Quotes

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• No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Fall, Butterfly

  'No!'

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• I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

  Thomas Hood

  Fall, Autumn, Fog

  'Ode: Autumn'

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• I remember, I remember,
  The house where I was born,
  The little window where
  the sun
  Came peeping in at morn.

  Thomas Hood

  House, Littles, Sun

  'I Remember'

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• What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.

  Thomas Hood

  Soul, Mind, Matter

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• I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

  Thomas Hood

  Long, Optimism, Looks

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.16

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• When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

  Thomas Hood

  Men, Apples, Firsts

  'Ruth'

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• To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

  Thomas Hood

  Conceited, Wind, People

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• When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Life, Teamwork

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.353

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• Peace and rest at length have come,
  All the day's long toil is past;
  And each heart is whispering, "Home,
  Home at last!"

  Thomas Hood

  Peace, Home, Heart

  Thomas Hood (1861). “The daughters of king Daher; and other poems”, p.62

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• How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

  Thomas Hood

  Sympathy, Condolences, Heart

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.295

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• Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Horse, Fear

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• Coquetry is the champagne of love.

  Thomas Hood

  Coquette, Coquetry, Champagne

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• Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

  Thomas Hood

  Mind, Wire, Brass

  Thomas Hood (1847). “Poems”, p.204

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• O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

  Thomas Hood

  Sleep, Insomnia, Heaven

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.229

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• I love thee - I love thee,
  'Tis all that I can say,
  It is my vision in the night,
  My dreaming in the day.

  Thomas Hood

  I Love You, Valentines Day, Dream

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.772, Delphi Classics

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• Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

  Thomas Hood

  Cutting, Form, Short Cuts

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• There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

  Thomas Hood

  Three, Novelty, Clamor

  "The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All the Original Illustrations".

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• Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

  Thomas Hood

  Artist, Frost, Icy

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• He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.

  Thomas Hood

  Lying, Hedgehogs, Way

  Thomas Hood (1842). “The Comic Annual”, p.60

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• Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

  Thomas Hood

  Red, Corn, Poppies

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.148

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• And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

  Thomas Hood

  New Year, Regret, Holiday

  Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2

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• Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

  Thomas Hood

  Dream, Most Romantic, Fiction

  Thomas Hood (1854). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.248

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• So mayst thou live, dear! many years,
  In all the bliss that life endears

  Thomas Hood

  Birthday, Years, Bliss

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.654, Delphi Classics

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• How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

  Thomas Hood

  Summer, Autumn, Sky

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.164

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• Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

  Thomas Hood

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.225

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