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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Xxxvi: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.— KEATS — Endymion. Bk. I.
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. L. 375. Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead.— LONGFELLOW — Resignation. St. 7.
I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.— GEORGE MACDONALD — Mary Marston. Ch. LVII.
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