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

The multiplying villanies of natures / Do swarm upon him. Macb., i. 2.

The multitude have no habit of self-reliance 20 or original action. Emerson.

The multitude is always in the wrong. Earl of Roscommon.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. Cicero.

The multitude unawed is insolent; once seized with fear, contemptible and vain. Mallet.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion; the unity which does not depend upon the multitude is tyranny. Pascal.

The Muses (daughters of Memory) refresh us 25 in our toilsome course with sweet remembrances. Novalis.

The music in my heart I bore / Long after it was heard no more. Wordsworth.

The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. Chapin.

The mystery of a person is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. Carlyle.