John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Vauvenargues (Marquis of). (1715–1747) |
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| Great thoughts come from the heart. 1 |
| Maxim cxxvii. |
| Michel Jean Sedaine. (1717–1797) |
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| O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee! |
| Sung at the Dinner given to the French Soldiers in the Opera Salon at Versailles, Oct. 1, 1789. |
| Charles Joseph, prince de Ligne. (1735–1814) |
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| The congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances. 2 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (1749–1832) |
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| Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,— He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. |
| Wilhelm Meister. Book ii. Chap. xiii. |
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| Know’st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket’s gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose? 3 |
| Wilhelm Meister. Book iii. Chap. i. |
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| Art is long, life short; 4 judgment difficult, opportunity transient. |
| Wilhelm Meister. Book vii. Chap. ix. |
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| The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception. |
| Autobiography. Book xviii. Truth and Beauty. |
| Note 1. See Sidney, Quotation 4. [back] |
| Note 2. One of the Prince de Ligne’s speeches that will last forever.—Edinburgh Review, July 1890, p. 244. [back] |
| Note 3. See Byron, Quotation 122. [back] |
| Note 4. See Chaucer, Quotation 52. [back] |