John Clare Quotes | I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the...

"I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe."

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Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.

— George Crabbe

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The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

— Ovid

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