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

'Tis certainly much easier for a man to restrain himself from talking at all, than to enter into discourse without saying more than becomes him. Thomas à Kempis.

'Tis day still while the sun shines. Pr. 5

'Tis death to me to be at enmity; / I hate it, and desire all good men's love. Rich. III., ii. 1.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, / And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Campbell.

'Tis education forms the common mind, / Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Pope.

'Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home. Hen. V., i. 2.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; / 10 Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. Suckling.

'Tis God / Diffused through all that doth make all one whole. Coleridge.

'Tis heaven alone that is given away; / 'Tis only God may be had for the asking. Lowell.

'Tis impossible you should take true root, but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest. Much Ado, i. 3.