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

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Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it:

He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

Epigram.

Footnotes

[455:1] See Burns, page [452].

None knew thee but to love thee.—Halleck: On the Death of Drake.

[455:2] See Bacon, page [165].

[455:3] See Gibbon, page [430].

Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, nec minus solum, quam quum solus esset (He is never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he is alone).—Cicero: De Officiis, liber iii. c. 1.

[455:4] This is literally from Seneca, Epistola lxiii. 16. See Matthew Henry, page [283].