FORMING An Encyclopædia of Quotations FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORS. BY MATURIN M. BALLOU. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. — LAMB. Short sentences drawn from a long experience. — CERVANTES. FIFTEENTH EDITION. BOSTON: 1894. QUOTATION, SIR, IS A GOOD THING ; THERE IS A COMMUNITY OF MIND IN IT; CLASSICAL QUOTATION IS THE PAROLE OF LITERARY ME LL OVER TI WORLD. Samuel Johnson. HOW MANY OF US HAVE BEEN ATTRACTED TO REASON; FIRST LEARNED TO THINK, TO DRAW conclusIONS, TO EXTRACT A MORAL FROM THE FOLLIES OF LIFE, BY SOME DAZZLING APHORISM! - Bulwer Lytton. I HERE PRESENT THEE WITH A HIVE OF BEES, LADEN SOME WITH WAX AND SOME WITH HONEY. FEAR NOT TO APPROACH ! THERE ARE NO HORNETS HERE. IF SOME WANTON BEE SHOULD CHANCE TO BUZZ ABOUT THINE EARS, STAND THY GROUND, AND HOLD THINE HANDS ; THERE IS NONE WILL STING THEE IF THOU STRIKE NOT FIRST. IF ANY DO, SHE HATH HONEY IN HER BAG WILL CURE THEE TOO. - Francis Quarles. THUS HAVE I, AS WELL AS I COULD, GATHERED A POSEY OF OBSERVATIONS AS THEY GREW ; AND IF SOME RUE AND WORMWOOD BE FOUND AMONG THE SWEET HERBS, THEIR WHOLESOMENESS WILL MAKE AMENDS FOR THEIR BITTERNESS. - Lord Lyttelton. |