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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35 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Idleness

Idleness: Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

Ignorance

Ignorance: How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. C.

Imagination

Imagination: Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.

Immortality

Immortality: It must be so-Plato, thou reasonest well!- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?…

Impatience

Impatience: Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.

Impossibility

Impossibility: A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Independence

Independence: Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Inconstancy

Inconstancy: I hate inconstancy-I loathe, detest, Abhor, condemn, abjure the mortal made Of such quicksilver clay that in his breast No…

Indifference

Indifference: I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.

Influence

Influence: For witnesses, like watches, go Just as they're set, too fast or slow; And, where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd, 'Tis ten…

Ingratitude

Ingratitude: Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace.

Inheritance

Inheritance: And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.

Injustice

Injustice: Injustice swift, erect and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.

Innocence

Innocence: E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give, When its resistless accents flow To bid affection live.

Insanity

Insanity: Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

Insects-Bee

Insects-Bee: Bee. The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er, To gather in his fragrant winter…

Insects-Flea

Insects-Flea: And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

Insects-Katydid

Insects-Katydid: Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A moving radiance twinkles.

Insects-Louse

Insects-Louse: Louse. Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crawlin' ferlie? Your impudence protects you sairly; I canna say but ye strunt rarely Owre…

Instruction

Instruction: I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still…

Instinct

Instinct: But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Intellect

Intellect: The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Intemperance

Intemperance: Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquebae, we'll…

Invention

Invention: I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me, I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop…

Investigation

Investigation: Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy…

Islands

Islands: From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

Iii

Iii: She is no better than she should be. jj.

Imitation

Imitation: Pindarum quisquis studet æmulari, Iule ceratis ope Dædaleâ Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus Nomina ponto. He who studies to…

Inclination

Inclination: Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod gaudias. If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by…

Indolence

Indolence: Vitanda est improba syren-desidia. That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Injury

Injury: Prohibetur ne quis faciat in suo, quod nocere possit in alieno. It is forbidden that any man should do that on his own property…

Inquisitiveness

Inquisitiveness: Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est. Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.

Insult

Insult: I demens! et sævas curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias. Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may…

Insolence

Insolence: Qui se laisse outrager, mérite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage. He who allows himself to be insulted…

Izaak

Izaak: CHAMFORT, S. R. N., littérateur. FRANCE, 1741-1794 775 785 CHANDLER, ELIZABETH M., poet and philanthropist, UNITED STATES, 1807-1834…

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