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

Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant—Let 45 our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them. Gr. and Lat. Pr., quoted by Cicero to condemn it.

Pereunt et imputantur—They (hours) pass, and are placed to our account. Mart.

Perfect existence can only be where spirit and body are one; an embodied spirit, a spiritual body. (?)

Perfect experience must itself embrace theoretical knowledge. Goethe.

Perfect life is ever in one's acts to deal with innocence, which proves itself in doing wrong to no one but itself. Goethe.

Perfect light / Would dazzle, not illuminate, the sight; / From earth it is enough to glimpse at heaven. Lord Houghton.

Perfect love canna be without equality. Sc. Pr.

Perfect love casteth out fear. St. John.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty. J. G. Holland.

Perfect woman, nobly planned, / To warn, to 5 comfort, and command; / And yet a spirit still, and bright / With something of an angel light. Wordsworth.