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10 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

First Movement. L. 6. When the baby died, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.— filed under Awkwardness

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.— filed under Day

Black-eyed Susan. Friend, ahoy! Farewell! farewell! Grief unto grief, joy unto joy, Greeting and help the echoes tell Faint, but eternal-Friend, ahoy!— filed under Farewell

Morning-Glory. Ipomea. Wondrous interlacement! Holding fast to threads by green and silky rings, With the dawn it spreads its white and purple wings; Generous in its bloom, and sheltering while it clings, Sturdy morning-glory.— filed under Flowers-Marsh Marigold

Wentworth Dillon's trans. The new is older than the old; And newest friend is oldest friend in this: That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss One thing we sought.— filed under Friends

Pope's trans. But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make good, Together there we can begin again In babyhood.— filed under Immortality

"O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles. Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells."— filed under Insects-Bee

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.— filed under Love

Love has a tide!— filed under Love

When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget.— filed under Love