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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36 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

William, Earl Of Stirling

William, Earl Of Stirling: Recreations with the Muses. London. Fol. 1637. P. 7. He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of…

War

War: A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And…

Water

Water: War! war! war! Heaven aid the right! God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight! God send the women sleep in the long, long night…

Weakness

Weakness: 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water: yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by feverish lips, May give a thrill of…

Wealth

Wealth: There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board…

Weeds

Weeds: Call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea.

Welcome

Welcome: To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

Wickedness

Wickedness: There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.

Wife

Wife: Wives are young men's mistresses; com panions for middle age; and old men's nurses.

Will

Will: A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury.

Wind

Wind: And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

Wine And Spirits

Wine And Spirits: I hang no ivie out to sell my wine; The nectar of good wits will sell itself.

Wisdom

Wisdom: Wisdom of our ancestors.

Wishes

Wishes: "Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are…

Wit

Wit: I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's…

Woman

Woman: Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!

Wonders

Wonders: A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

Wooing

Wooing: I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.

Words

Words: Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

Work

Work: When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? Lines used by JOHN BALL in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. By the way, The works of…

Worship

Worship: Even the linked fantasies, in whose blossomy twist I swung the earth a trinket at my wrist.

Worth

Worth: Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

Wounds

Wounds: H' had got a hurt 0' th' inside of a deadlier sort.

Wrongs

Wrongs: The multitude is always in the wrong.

Want

Want: Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet. The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not.

Watchfulness

Watchfulness: Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicuti adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient. Without your…

Wine

Wine: Oculos et vestigia domini, res agro saluberrimas, facilius admittit. He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the…

Writing

Writing: Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror. Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of…

Ward

Ward: PHILIPS, AMBROSE, poet and dramatist.......... ENGLAND, 1671-1749 PHILIPS, JOHN, poet... ENGLAND, 1676-1708 PHILLIPS CHARLES…

Walker, William

Walker, William: 516 WALLACE, HORACE BINNEY, lawyer and writer.... UNITED STATES, 1817-1852 484 532

Wallace, John Aikman

Wallace, John Aikman: 490 WALLACE, WILLIAM ROSS, poet, UNITED STATES, about 1819-1881 402 490 WALLER, EDMUND, poet... ENGLAND, 1605-1687 37…

Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: author........ UNITED STATES, 1844-L. 557 WARD, MRS. HUMPHRY (Mary Augusta Arnold), English novelist…

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley: DUKE OF, statesman and general, IRELAND, 1769-1852 97 146 319 433 640 WELLS, ANNA MARIA, poet, UNITED STATES…

Whitman, Sarah Helen Power

Whitman, Sarah Helen Power: poet and critic, UNITED STATES, 1803-1878 WHITMAN, WALT. poet, UNITED STATES, 1819-1892 NAMES, NATIVITY, ETC…

Wilde, George James De

Wilde, George James De: 302 WILDE, OSCAR, writer, leader in the esthetic movement.. IRELAND, 1856-1900 116 196 221 224 226 292 322 351 399…

Wrother, Miss

Wrother, Miss: 309 WYATT or WYAT, SIR THOMAS, diplomatist and poet..... ENGLAND, 1503-1542 367 WYCHERLY, WILLIAM, dramatist, ENGLAND, about…

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