C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. Symbols (See Signs)
Science sees signs; poetry the thing signified.J. C. and A. W. Hare.
1 It (Catholicism) supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.Nath. Hawthorne.
2 All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind, As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
Longfellow.
3 Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.Cicero.
4 Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.
Wordsworth.
5 If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing old signs; a’ brushes his hat of o’ mornings; what should that bode?Shakespeare.
6 With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes; The tools of working out salvation By mere mechanic operation.
Butler.
7 There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.Ruskin.
8 Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower’d citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon ’t, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper’s pageants.
Shakespeare.
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