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21 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
Will change the Pebbles of our puddly thought To Orient Pearls.— filed under Change
My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.— filed under Childhood
Did thrust (as now) in others' corn his sickle.— filed under Contention
Only that he may conform To (Tyrant) customs.— filed under Custom
Apoplexie, and Lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.— filed under Disease
These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.— filed under Eyes
Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre; And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber, The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.— filed under Fashion
For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?— filed under Government
Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde; Moves in an instant, if the buzzing Flie Stir but a string of her Lawn Canopie.— filed under Insects-Louse
Invitation. There is no Theam more plentifull to scan, Then is the glorious goodly Frame of Man. S.— filed under Man
Out of the book of Nature's learned breast.— filed under Nature
Bower by the Sea. Night's black Mantle covers all alike.— filed under Night
Health. Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put His violent Engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then (guided by use and art), To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.— filed under Occupations-Law
Living from hand to mouth.— filed under Proverbs
Made no more bones.— filed under Proverbs
Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain.— filed under Proverbs
Thy Will for Deed I do accept.— filed under Proverbs
With tooth and nail.— filed under Solon
Sleep. Who well lives, long lives: for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.— filed under Time
Two Souls in one, two Hearts into one Heart!— filed under Unity
I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men doo play their personage. S.— filed under Work