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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Wendell Phillips. (1811–1884)
 
7010
      Revolutions are not made; they come.
          Speech. Jan. 28, 1852.
7011
      What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
          Speech. Dec. 21, 1855.
7012
      One on God’s side is a majority.
          Speech. Nov. 1, 1859.
7013
      Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
          Speech. Nov. 1, 1859.
7014
      Revolutions never go backward.
          Speech. Feb. 12, 1861.
7015
    Aristocracy is always cruel.
          Lecture: Toussaint l’Ouverture (1861).
7016
      Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
          Lecture: The Lost Arts.
 
Alfred Domett. (1811–1887)
 
7017
    It was the calm and silent night!
  Seven hundred years and fifty-three
Had Rome been growing up to might,
  And now was queen of land and sea.
No sound was heard of clashing wars,
  Peace brooded o’er the hushed domain;
Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars
  Held undisturbed their ancient reign
      In the solemn midnight,
          Centuries ago.
          Christmas Hymn.