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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Quotes by John Dyer

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

A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.— filed under Life
Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view? S.— filed under Nature
and the Priest. And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, - Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!— filed under Rights
The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Cæsars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie, Blended in dust together; where the slave Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud Resigns his powers; the miser drops his hoard: Where human folly sleeps.— filed under Gratitude
India India. And he that will this health deny, let Down among the dead men let him lie. him lie.— filed under To-Day
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