Isaac Bickerstaffe quotes
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“Hope! thou nurse of young desire.”
-- Isaac BickerstaffeSource : Isaac Bickerstaffe (1791). “Love in a village: a comic opera”, p.1
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“How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.”
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“Young fellows will be young fellows.”
-- Isaac BickerstaffeSource : Isaac Bickerstaffe (1818). “Love in a village, a comic opera. Oxberry's ed”, p.32
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“But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.”
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“Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.”
-- Isaac BickerstaffeSource : Isaac Bickerstaffe, Newbery (1767). “The Maid of the Mill. A Comic Opera. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By the Author of Love in a Village. A New Edition”, p.7
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“Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.”
-- Isaac BickerstaffeSource : Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1825). “The Padlock, etc”, p.10
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“There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.”
-- Isaac BickerstaffeSource : Love in aVillage act 1, sc. 2 (1762)
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“The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.”
-- Isaac BickerstaffeSource : Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1814). “Love in a Village ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald”, p.14
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“Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.”
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“Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!”
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“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
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Source : Source: www.npr.org
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“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
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Source : Adam Hamilton (2013). “When Christians Get It Wrong”, p.110, Abingdon Press
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