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

Good poetry is always personification, and 5 heightens every species of force by giving it a human volition. Emerson.

Good poets are the inspired interpreters of the gods. Plato.

Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind, but it is good-breeding that sets them off to advantage. Locke.

Good reasons must of force give place to better. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

Good right needs good help. Dut. Pr.

Good-sense and good-nature are never separated, 10 though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Dryden.

Good-sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, / And though no science, fairly worth the seven. Pope.

Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.... It is to be all made of sighs and tears.... It is to be all made of faith and service.... It is to be all made of fantasy, / All made of passion, and all made of wishes; / All adoration, duty, and observance; / All humbleness, all patience, and impatience; / All purity, all trial, all observance. As You Like It, v. 2.

Good sword has often been in poor scabbard. Gael. Pr.

Good take heed / Doth surely speed. Pr.