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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H' had got a hurt 0' th' inside of a deadlier sort.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto III. L. 309.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The heart's bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 84.
Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee, In secret, in silence, and tears.— MRS. DAVID PORTER — Thou Hast
Wounded the Spirit. He in peace is wounded, not in war. The Rape of Lucrece. L.
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