| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton. (1803–1873) (continued) |
| | Bend on me then thy tender eyes,
As stars look on the sea. |
| When Stars are in the quiet Skies. |
| 6432 | Buy my flowers,—oh buy, I pray!
The blind girl comes from afar. |
| Buy my Flowers. |
| 6433 | | There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood. |
| Kenelm Chillingly. |
| 6434 | | The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. |
| Night and Morning. Chap. vi. |
| 6435 | | Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell. |
| Last of the Barons. Book v. Chap. i. |
| 6436 | | A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. |
| The Disowned. Chap. xxxiii. |
| 6437 | | The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self. |
| The Disowned. Chap. xlii. |
| 6438 | | The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. |
| Eugene Aram. Book i. Chap. vii. |
| 6439 | | Fate laughs at probabilities. |
| Eugene Aram. Book i. Chap. x. |
| 6440 | | In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classics are always modern. |
| Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture. |
| | | Edwin Ransford. (1805–1876) |
| | | 6441 | In the days when we went gypsying
A long time ago;
The lads and lassies in their best
Were drest from top to toe. |
| In the Days when we went Gypsying. |
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