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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Ross Wallace. (1819–1881)
 
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        They say that man is mighty,
      He governs land and sea;
    He wields a mighty scepter
      O’er lesser powers that be;
And the hand that rocks the cradle
  Is the hand that rules the world.
          What rules the World?
 
Harriet Winslow Sewall. (1819–1889)
 
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    Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
  For the far-off, unattained, and dim,
While the beautiful all round thee lying
  Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?
          Why thus longing?
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    Poor indeed must thou be, if around thee
  Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw—
          Why thus longing?
 
James Russell Lowell. (1819–1891)
 
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    Earth’s noblest thing,—a woman perfected.
          Irené.
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    Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
          Sonnet iv.
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    Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity.
          Sonnet vi.
7287
    To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.
          Sonnet xxv.
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    Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,—
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
          Sonnet xxxiv. (Ed. 1844).
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    Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.
          L’ Envoi.