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My steps have pressed the flow...

My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have given:
And trod the mountain height,
Where Science, young and bright,
Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.
Yet have I found no power to vie
With thine, severe necessity!

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

The mountain sheep are sweeter...

The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter.
We therefore deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter.
- Thomas Love Peacock,

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Clouds on clouds, in volumes d...

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven,
Curtain round the vault of heaven.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

The waste of plenty is the res...

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

But though first love's impass...

But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Time, the foe of man's dominio...

Time, the foe of man's dominion,
Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

The present is our own; but wh...

The present is our own; but while we speak,
We cease from its possession, and resign
The stage we tread on, to another race,
As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Man yields to death; and man's...

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Time is lord of thee:
Thy...

Time is lord of thee:
Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

He kept at true good humor's m...

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Not drunk is he who from the f...

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

I never failed to convince an ...

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

A book that furnishes no quota...

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

The juice of the grape is the ...

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

My thoughts by night are often...

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Laughter is pleasant, but the ...

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Marriage may often be a stormy...

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Death comes to all. His cold a...

Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand
Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away.
Who shall resist the summons?

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

There are two reasons for drin...

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Seamen three! what men be ye? ...

Seamen three! what men be ye?
Gotham's three Wise Men we be.
Whither in your bowl so free?
To rake the moon from out the sea.
The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine,
And our ballast is old wine.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

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