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 Mrs. Sarah J. Hale

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

O beautiful rainbow;-all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night; Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear, And, bending above thee, the angels draw near, And sing,-"The rainbow! the rainbow! The smile of God is here."— filed under Rain
Rugged strength and radiant beauty- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty- These will form the perfect man.— filed under Character
Beauty was lent to nature as the type Of heaven's unspeakable and holy joy, Where all perfection makes the sum of bliss.— filed under Beauty
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