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

Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.— filed under Action

Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell ; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade. [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell, Was but moral of this bell, And the captive soul was she, Which they called Eurydice, Rescued by our holy groan, A loud echo to this tone.]— filed under Bells

All buildings are but monuments of death, All clothes but winding-sheets for our last knell, All dainty fattings for the worms beneath, All curious music but our passing bell: Thus death is nobly waited on, for why? All that we have is but death's livery.— filed under Death

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.— filed under Death

He that on his pillow lies, Fear-embalmed before he dies Carries, like a sheep, his life, To meet the sacrificer's knife, And for eternity is prest, Sad bell-wether to the rest.— filed under Death

The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.— filed under Death

The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings.— filed under Faults

Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. S.— filed under Gossip