The Parish Register (1807), Part i, "Introduction". Compare "How commentators each dark passage shun, / And hold their farthing candle to the sun", Edward Young, Love of Fame, Satire vii, Line 97.
George Crabbe: Quotes about love
George Crabbe was English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”
Tale xiv, "The Struggles of Conscience". Compare: "'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
Tales in Verse (1812)
“A master passion is the love of news.”
The Newspaper (1785), line 279.