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 Richard Monckton Milnes

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

Youth, that pursuest with such eager pace Thy even way, Thou pantest on to win a mournful race: Then stay! oh, stay! Pause and luxuriate in thy sunny plain; Loiter, enjoy: Once past, Thou never wilt come back again, A second Boy.— filed under Youth
Pope's trans. A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.— filed under Blessings
House. (Attributed also to Jean Adam.) Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares.— filed under Character
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