John Clare Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by John Clare:
I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
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The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
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And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
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I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.
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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
~John Clare
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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
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He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
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I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.
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Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.
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