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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Sir William Jones

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written.

What constitutes a state?… Men who their duties know, / But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.