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

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And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust

Burn to the socket.

The Excursion. Book i.

This dull product of a scoffer's pen.

The Excursion. Book ii.

With battlements that on their restless fronts

Bore stars.

The Excursion. Book ii.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop

Than when we soar.