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

Come è duro calle—How hard is the path. Dante.

Come, fair Repentance, daughter of the skies! / Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; / The weeping messenger of grace from heaven. Browne.

Come forth into the light of things, / Let Nature be your teacher. Wordsworth.

Come he slow or come he fast, / It is but 45 Death who comes at last. Scott.

Come like shadows, so depart. Bowles.

Come, my best friends, my books, and lead me on. Cowley.

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly / From its firm base as soon as I. Scott.

Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est—A pleasant companion on the road is as good as a carriage. Pub. Syr.

Come the three corners of the world in arms, / 50 And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, / If England to itself do rest but true. King John, v. 7.

Come, we burn daylight. Rom. and Jul., i. 4.