| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Bryant |
| | | All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom. | 1 |
| Deliverer, God hath appointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor. | 2 |
| Eloquence is the poetry of prose. | 3 |
| God hath anointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor. | 4 |
| God hath yoked to Guilt her pale tormentor, Misery. | 5 |
| Knowledge is the material with which genius builds her fabrics. | 6 |
| Old age is wise for itself, but not wise for the community. | 7 |
| Poetry is the worst mask in the world behind which folly and stupidity could attempt to hide their features. | 8 |
| The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man. | 9 |
| The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. | 10 | | |
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