Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Bible.

Of more than earth can earth make none possesst; / And he that least / Regards this restless world, shall in this world find rest. Quarles.

Of other tyrants short the strife, / But Indolence is king for life: / The despot twists, with soft control, / Eternal fetters round the soul. Hannah More.

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely 10 give the greatest delight. Epictetus.

Of real evils the number is great; of possible evils there is no end. Johnson.

Of the Beautiful we are seldom capable, oftener of the Good; and how highly should we value those who endeavour, with great sacrifices, to forward that good among their fellows! Goethe.

Of the eyes that men do glare withal, so few can see. Carlyle.

Of the soul, the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser.

Of the three requisitions of genius, the first 15 is soul; the second, soul; and the third, soul. Whipple.

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as he takes. It. Pr.