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• Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Bridge of Sigh...
• One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Bridge of Sigh...
• Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Bridge of Sigh...
• And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Ode to Melancholy...
• Thus she stood amid the stooks, Praising God with sweetest looks.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Ruth...
• O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Song of the Shi...
• We are, because God is. -- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) "Divine Providence
• Extremes meet, as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth -- Thomas Hood
• How widely its agencies vary,-- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,-- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Miss Kilmansegg, Her Moral...