Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Charity.

His noble negligences teach

What others' toils despair to reach.

Alma. Canto ii. Line 7.

Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em,

And oft repeating, they believe 'em.

Alma. Canto iii. Line 13.

Abra was ready ere I called her name;

And though I called another, Abra came.

Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book ii. Line 364.