Quotes by Henry Lawson - Page 1

I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Wisdom
Australia
Punishment
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Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Beer
Drinking
Ought
Party
Way
Feel
Without
Makes
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It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Wisdom
Children
Country
Sake
Shame
Taught
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In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Sports
Hero
Land
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It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Men
Long
Revolution
Satisfied
Parade
Proper
Spreading
Young Men
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Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?
Henry Lawson / Writer
Home
Australia
Offers
Thanks
Way
Englishman
Finds
His Way
Shores
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And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Block
Divided
Partition
Polite
Stairs
Men Women Society
Opposite
Bench
Dock
Women Men Society
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Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Becoming
Common
England
Closer
Connection
Different People
Fast
English People
Entirely
Except
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The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Giraffe
Horse
Railway
Sick
Sick Man
Three
Chap
Towards
Head
Led
Parts
Road
Station
Took
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Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Wisdom
Home
Travel
Ease
Lost
New Ways
Old Ways
Restless
Steep
Track
Oh
Deep
High
Road
Ways
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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Jealousy
Australia
England
Land
Lines
Reasoning
Account
Nation
Line
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Anniversary
Smile
Attending
Australia
Children
School
Ten
Acquainted
Colonies
Historical Fact
Hundredth
Public Schools
Schools
Throughout
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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Wisdom
Independence
Consequence
Extremes
Eye
Individuality
Merit
Study
Sufficient
Understood
Accorded
Asserting
English
Carry
Closer
Eyes
Hitherto
Shall
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The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Characteristics
Children
Country
Europe
Promise
Singularity
Advance
Bred
Meanest
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The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.
Henry Lawson / Writer
Men
Cutting
Drunk
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