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 Sir Samuel Garth

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

To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er.— filed under Death
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air. C.— filed under Disappointment
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.— filed under Dissension
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.— filed under Ingratitude
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.— filed under Nature
Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdure here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful Year. * * * * * * The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.— filed under Sculpture
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