Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Henry Lawson quotes, Henry Lawson sayings, and Henry Lawson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.Henry Lawson
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You who drink because of shame that you think will last, or because of wrong done you—trouble in the past—“Nothing left to live for now,” you will say, I know; but you have your own self yet, give that self a show!Henry Lawson
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To a distant goal, like the grey wolves grey.Henry Lawson
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We robbed the water and the air to give us “energy,” / As we’d exhaust Thy secret store of electricity. / The day may come—and such a day!—when we shall need all three.Henry Lawson
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His grave is growing old and green / And things have altered rather / But still I think ’twas mighty mean / The way I treated father. / He left a tidy sum to me / But I’d give all the money / To hear him say, “Will you get up / And bile the billy, Sonny?”Henry Lawson
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And fair across to where we know / The shelving sea cliffs are— / The lighthouse, with a still faint glow, / Beneath a twinkling star.Henry Lawson
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Here’s luck!’ while waitin’ for the luck that never comes.Henry Lawson
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If you're proud because of fortune or the clever things you do, then i'll play no second fiddle; I'm a prouder man than you.Henry Lawson
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The night too quickly passes / And we are growing old, / So let us fill our glasses / And toast the Days of Gold; / When finds of wondrous treasure / Set all the South ablaze, / And you and I were faithful mates / All through the roaring days!Henry Lawson
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And when the old man saw him come , well you know how we welcomed him,Henry Lawson
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And welcomed him and hugged his dad and filled the wine cup to the brim. Henry Lawson
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Seen him welcomed with effusion by a dozen toney gents.Henry Lawson
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Masseur and manicurist / Or anything by chance / They vilify their husbands— / And draw the maintenance.Henry Lawson
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A roving, roaming life is mine, / Ever by field or flood — / For not far back in my father's line / Was a dash of the Gipsy blood.Henry Lawson
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When you’ve knocked about the country — been away from home for years; / When the past, by distance softened, nearly fills your eyes with tears — / You are haunted oft, wherever or however you may roam, / By a fancy that you ought to go and see the folks at home.Henry Lawson
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Oh, ride and ride, you riders, / Who rode ere I was born, / While blink-and-blink the star-dust / That blinks before the morn.Henry Lawson
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The grass is tough as fencing-wire, And just as good for fodder.Henry Lawson
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The grass is tough as fencing-wire, And just as good for fodder.Henry Lawson
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Splitting timber for the fencing, Stripping bark to roof the shed.Henry Lawson
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You love me, you say, and I think you do, / But I know so many who don’t, / And how can I say I’ll be true to you / When I know very well that I won’t? / I have journeyed long and my goal is far, / I love, but I cannot bide, / For as sure as rises the morning star, / With the break of day I’ll ride. / I was doomed to ruin or doomed to mar / The home wherever I stay, / But I’ll think of you as the morning star / And they call me Break o’ Day.Henry Lawson
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A tramp was trampin’ on the road — / The afternoon was warm an’ muggy — / And by-and-by he chanced to meet / A parsin ridin’ in a buggy. / Said he: 'As follerers ov the Loard, / To do good offices we oughter!' / An’ from a water-bag he poured, / An’ guv the tramp, a drink er water.Henry Lawson
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A restless, homeless class they are / Who tramp in Borderland. / They take their rest ’neath moon and star — / Their bed the desert sand,Henry Lawson
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Pour , ye mocking rains, and rattle, / On the bare, brown, grassless plain, / On the shrivelled hides of cattle, / That shall ne'er want grass again.Henry Lawson
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From our black bread and our vodka — asking naught, and undismayed — / From our never-empty cradles! — we are coming to your aid. Henry Lawson
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We respected the cook; but the name of a Boss was a blot in our book.Henry Lawson
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The shearers squint along the board to catch the Boss’s boots;Henry Lawson
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Castle, built of marble that was cut and reared with pain
By the poor and starving wretches who were serfs on that domain—
All the jewel-studded windows shone at sunset like a fire,
And a diamond was flashing from the needle of the spire.Henry Lawson
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But still when all seems lost on earth / Then heaven sets a sign— / Kneel down beside your lonely bed, / And I will kneel by mine, / And let us pray for happy days— / Like those of long ago. / Ah! had we knelt together then / We’do not have parted so.Henry Lawson