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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22 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

George

George: ELIOT-The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III. Friend more divine than all divinities.

Gain

Gain: Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Gambling

Gambling: Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.

Garden

Garden: Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgag'd, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty…

Genius

Genius: As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which…

Gentlemen

Gentlemen: Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people.

Gifts

Gifts: My master hath been an honourable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him, which gentlemen have.

Gentleness

Gentleness: He is gentil that doth gentil dedis. S.

Glory

Glory: That every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath

God

God: We rise in glory, as we sink in pride: Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Gold

Gold: Or else flushed Ganymede, his rosy thigh Half buried in the Eagle's down, Sole as a flying star, shot thro' the sky, Above the…

Goodness

Goodness: Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.

Gossip

Gossip: You're good for Madge or good for Cis Or good for Kate, maybe: But what's to me the good of this While you're not good for me?

Government

Government: *** The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a…

Grace

Grace: Take time enough-all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.

Gratitude

Gratitude: Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace.

Greatness

Greatness: Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two…

Grief

Grief: Great is Youth-equally great is Old Agegreat are Day and Night. Great is Wealth-great is Poverty-great is Expression-great is…

Growth

Growth: What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he…

Guests

Guests: And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

Guilt

Guilt: What we call real estate-the solid ground to build a house on-is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world…

Generosity

Generosity: Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quærere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone. Cease to inquire what the future has in…

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