John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
George William Curtis 1824-1892 John Bartlett
| 1 |
| I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!” |
| Ebb and Flow. |
| 2 |
| While we read history we make history. |
| The Call of Freedom. |
| 3 |
| Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. |
| The Call of Freedom. |