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1. "Peace and rest at length have comeAll the day's long toil is past,And each heart is whispering, 'Home,Home at last." ~ Thomas Hood
2. "When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press'd with specious cant,Oh! what a thousand pities thenThat Adam was not adamant!" ~ Thomas Hood
3. "No sun—no moon! No morn—no noon—No dawn— No sky—no earthly view— No distance looking blue—No road—no street—no "t'other side the way"— No end to any Row— No indications where the Crescents go— No top to any steeple—No recognitions of familiar people— No courtesies for showing 'em— No knowing 'em!No traveling at all—no locomotion,No inkling of the way—no notion— "No go"—by land or ocean— No mail—no post— No news from any foreign coast—No park—no ring—no afternoon gentility— No company—no nobility—No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member—No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!" ~ Thomas Hood
4. "To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind." ~ Thomas Hood
5. "I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence." ~ Thomas Hood
6. "Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther." ~ Thomas Hood
7. "There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty." ~ Thomas Hood
8. "Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn." ~ Thomas Hood
9. "There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid." ~ Thomas Hood
10. "Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime." ~ Thomas Hood
11. "A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled." ~ Thomas Hood
12. "A moment's thinking is an hour in words." ~ Thomas Hood
13. "'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth." ~ Thomas Hood
14. "Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!" ~ Thomas Hood
15. "The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago." ~ Thomas Hood
16. "SilenceTHERE is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold grave—under the deep, deep sea, Or in wide desert where no life is found, Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound; No voice is hush'd—no life treads silently, But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free, That never spoke, over the idle ground: But in green ruins, in the desolate walls Of antique palaces, where Man hath been, Though the dun fox or wild hyæna calls, And owls, that flit continually between, Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan— There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone." ~ Thomas Hood
17. "We thought her dying whilst she slept, And sleeping when she died." ~ Thomas Hood

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I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?"
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