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

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Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,

Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.

Goethe: Wilhelm Meister, book ii. chap. xiii.

[618:1] Quoted from Cotton's "To-morrow." See Genesis xxx. 3.

[618:2] See Chaucer, page [5].

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem (In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune).—Boethius: De Consolatione Philosophiæ, liber ii.

This is truth the poet sings,

That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.

Tennyson: Locksley Hall, line 75.

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