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) |
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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. |