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 Mary Clemmer

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

The anemone in snowy hood, The sweet arbutus in the wood. And to the smiling skies above I say, "Bend brightly o'er my love."— filed under Flirting
I lie amid the Goldenrod, I love to see it lean and nod; I love to feel the grassy sod Whose kindly breast will hold me last, Whose patient arms will fold me fast!- Fold me from sunshine and from song, Fold me from sorrow and from wrong: Through gleaming gates of Goldenrod I'll pass into the rest of God.— filed under Flowers-Forget-Me-Not
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?— filed under Occupations-Jeweler
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too great for fame.— filed under Occupations-Jeweler
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.— filed under Sows
A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.— filed under To-Morrow
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