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

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Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries ago.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries ago.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries ago.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries ago.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries ago.