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

Dejection, near Naples. Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; And every Grin, so merry, draws one out JOHN WOLCOTT (Peter Pindar)- Expostulatory Odes. Ode 15. And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.— filed under Cause

Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire! Whose modest form, so delicately fine, Was nursed in whirling storms, And cradled in the winds. Thee when young spring first question'd winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on his bank he threw To mark his victory.— filed under Flowers-Primrose

Horace Mann. Nov. 24, 1774. Where now is Britain? * * * * * * Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks where stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.— filed under Gain

This is the charm, by sages often told, Converting all it touches into gold : Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in the desert waste.— filed under Content

Husbandrie. The Author's Epistle. Ch. I. To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.— filed under Time