Be. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.


The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun. Solomon.—Ecclesiastes, Chap. i. Ver. 9.	1
What has been, may be; and what may be, may be supposed to be. Swift.—A Further Search, etc. (See Appendix, Page 832, in Roscoe’s Life of Swift, Vol. II.)	2
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Bishop Butler.—Sermon 7 at the Rolls.	3
Every thing is what it is, and not another thing. Bishop Butler.—Pref. to the Rolls Sermons, p. 16.	4
To be, or not to be, that is the question; Whether ’tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (His Soliloquy on life and death.)	5
To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel’s wing, no seraph’s fire; But thinks admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 109.	6