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.
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Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;
... GEORGE CRABBE Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth. GEORGE CRABBE Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. GEORGE CRABBE The coward never on himself relies,
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They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek,
... GEORGE CRABBE Oh! rather give me commentators plain,
Who with no deep researches vex the brain;
Who from th... GEORGE CRABBE His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains,
But neither feels nor fears ideal pains. GEORGE CRABBE Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ;
His wife he cabined with him and his boy,
And seemed... GEORGE CRABBE Void of all honor, avaricious, rash,
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--
Tincture ... GEORGE CRABBE From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains,
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... GEORGE CRABBE The face the index of a feeling mind. GEORGE CRABBE Habit with him was all the test of truth;
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And took for truth the test of ridicule;
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That still displayed their melancholy hue;
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A... GEORGE CRABBE The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak;
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