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

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[695:5] See Shakespeare, page [64].

[696:1] See Waller, page [219].

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SOPHOCLES.  496-406 b. c.

Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right.

Antigone, 706.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Electra, 1007.

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.[696:2]

Trachiniæ, 1.