John Clare quotes

  1. Home
  2. John Clare quotes
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.
John Clare
Nature
Drinking
Enemy
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
John Clare
Life
And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
John Clare
Choice
Voice
The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
John Clare
Action
Difficulty
Nothing
Trying
World
He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
John Clare
Time
Trees