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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Oblivion |
| Oblivion is not to be hired. Sir Thomas Browne—Hydriotaphia. Ch. V. | 1 |
| For those sacred powers Tread on oblivion: no desert of ours Can be entombed in their celestial breasts. Wm. Browne—Britannia’s Pastorals. Bk. III. Song II. St. 23. | 2 |
| It is not in the storm nor in the strife We feel benumb’d, and wish to be no more, But in the after-silence on the shore, When all is lost, except a little life. Byron—Lines on Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill. L. 9. | 3 |
| Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past. Carlyle—Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches. Introduction. Ch. I. | 4 |
| And o’er the past oblivion stretch her wing. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XXIV. L. 557. Pope’s trans. | 5 |
| He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. Job. VII. 10. | 6 |
| Injuriarum remedium est oblivio. Oblivion is the remedy for injuries. Seneca—Epistles. 94. Quoting from an old poet, also found in Syrus. | 7 |
| What’s past and what’s to come is strew’d with husks And formless ruin of oblivion. Troilus and Cressida. Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 166. | 8 |
| Eo magis præfulgebant quod non videbantur. They shone forth the more that they were not seen. Tacitus. Adapted from Annals. Bk. III. 76. | 9 |
| But from your mind’s chilled sky It needs must drop, and lie with stiffened wings Among your soul’s forlornest things; A speck upon your memory, alack! A dead fly in a dusty window-crack. Francis Thompson—“Manus Animam Pinxit.” St. 2. | 10 |
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