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 term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons. Jane Taylor.

The test of civilisation is the estimate of woman. G. W. Curtis.

The test or measure of poetic genius is to read the poetry of affairs, to fuse the circumstance of to-day. Emerson.

The theatre has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds! Goethe.

The There is never Here. Schiller. 15

The thin edge of the wedge is to be feared. Pr.

The thing a lie wants, and solicits from all men, is not a correct natural history of it, but the swiftest possible extinction of it, followed by entire silence about it. Carlyle.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. Emerson.

The thing men get to believe is the thing they will infallibly do. Carlyle.

The thing that hath been, it is that which 20 shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done. Bible.