The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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38 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Easter

Easter: Awake, thou wintry earth- Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! Christ is risen.

Eating

Eating: The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge nor quail, But sets up his rest and…

Echo

Echo: Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

Economy

Economy: But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard, In your rambles in valleys and forests, Repeating your…

Education

Education: Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric…

Effects

Effects: As on the smooth exp expanse of crystal lakes The sinking stone at first a circle makes; The trembling surface by the motion…

Electricity

Electricity: For the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind-and the lightning now Is tangled in…

Eloquence

Eloquence: Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to its part.

Emigration

Emigration: Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy…

Enemy

Enemy: It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of…

Enjoyment

Enjoyment: What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm: However, 'tis expedient to be wary: Indifference certes don't produce distress; And rash enthusiasm in good society Were…

Envy

Envy: Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the…

Epigrams

Epigrams: From Martial. While the daring Leander was seeking the sweet object of his love, and exhausted, was just being ingulfed by the…

Epitaph

Epitaph: Here lie the remains of James Pady, Brickmaker, in hope that his clay will be remoulded in a workmanlike manner, far superior to…

Equality

Equality: He directed the stone over his grave to be thus inscribed : Hie jacet hujus Sententiæ primus Author: Disputandi pruritus…

Error

Error: The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error…

Eternity

Eternity: Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our…

Evening

Evening: In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Evil

Evil: Evil events from evil causes spring.

Evolution

Evolution: Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves…

Example

Example: Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Expectation

Expectation: "Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear. C.

Experience

Experience: Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

Expression

Expression: We gain Justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. I. Canto III. St…

Extremes

Extremes: Extremes are faulty and proceed from men: compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

Eyes

Eyes: In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, A mystical forewarning.

Ever

Ever: DANIEL WEBSTER-Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826.

Equity

Equity: Bonus judex bonum judicat et equitatem strictæ legi præfert. A good judge decides fairly, preferring equity to strict law. Law…

Events

Events: Certis rebus certa signa præcurrunt. Certain signs precede certain events.

Excess

Excess: Ne mente quidem recte uti possumus, multo cibo et potione completi. We can not use the mind aright, when we are filled with…

Excitability

Excitability: Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo. He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

Excuse

Excuse: Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant. Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

Ennui

Ennui: L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformité. One day ennui was born from uniformity.

Edmondstoune

Edmondstoune: critic and poet...... SCOTLAND, 1813-1865 NAMES, NATIVITY, ETC., OF QUOTED AUTHORS. B. BACON, FRANCIS, philosopher and…

Evans

Evans: ELIZABETH, Queen of England.......1533-1603 256 305

Ellerton, William

Ellerton, William: 662 ELLIOTT, EBENEZER, " The Corn Law "The Corn Law 227 Rhymer," poet,...... ENGLAND, 1781-1849 19 70 102 146 182 206…

Evremond, Charles De Saint Denis

Evremond, Charles De Saint Denis: littérateur, wit, and courtier, FRANCE, 1613-1703 775 EYTINGE, MARGARET, author, 31 F. FABER, FREDERICK…

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