Charles Sprague Quotes

Charles Sprague was an early American poet. He worked for 45 years for the State and Globe Banks and was often referred to as the "Banker Poet of Boston". His odes and prologues won several competitive prizes and were collected and published in 1841 as The Writings of Charles Sprague. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. October 1791 – 22. January 1875
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Famous Charles Sprague Quotes

“Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
In learned doctors’ spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel,
And lap me in delight.”

Charles Sprague

To my Cigar, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Through life’s dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.”

Charles Sprague

Curiosity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.”

Charles Sprague

Curiosity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Behold! in Liberty’s unclouded blaze
We lift our heads, a race of other days.”

Charles Sprague

Centennial Ode. Stanza 22, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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