But though that 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 (1785–1866) English novelist, satirist, poet, merchant
“Love and Age,” From Gryll Grange (1860)
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Peacock, Thomas Love
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book — it is a plaything.
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) English novelist, satirist, poet, merchant
Crochet Castle, ch. 9 (1831)
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There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. The first is obvious, mechanical, and plebeian; the second is most refined, abstract, prospicient, and canonical. I drink by anticipation of thirst that may be. Prevention is better than cure.
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) English novelist, satirist, poet, merchant
Melincourt, ch. 16 (1817)
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Better vexation than stagnation: marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) English novelist, satirist, poet, merchant
Melincourt, ch. 7 (1817)
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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 arise.Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) English novelist, satirist, poet, merchant
The Misfortunes of Elphin, ch. 3 (1829)
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