| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| Perfect to Poems |
| Perfect blend which makes the p. man, 1352 cannot expect p. government, 1351 work from imperfect man, 1348 |
| Perfection, 1348–1352 of machinery … will in the end avail it [state] nothing, 1760 |
| Perfectionism, 910 |
| Perfectly clear, 231 free till all are free, 1350 happy till all are happy, 1350 moral till all are moral, 1350 |
| Perform something worthy to be remembered, 13 what we cannot, 1544 |
| Pericles (c. 495–429 B.C.), 97, 1022, 1552, 1568, 1948 |
| Peril of being judged not to have lived, 1088 we stood by our government in its p., 737 When we depart from these values, we do so at our p., 1868 |
| Perilous in the execution, 1765 |
| Perils do not take lightly the p. of war, 1948 over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed, 57 |
| Period was so far like the present p., 1818 |
| Perish better for us to p. in battle, 402 civilisation or liberty must p., 334 civilization would p., 421 If we work upon marble, it will p., 1198 liberty would p., 421 than live as slaves, 1634 |
| Perishable [Time] the most p. of all our possessions, 1816 |
| Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge, 968 |
| Persecuted if p., it will be generally read, 170 |
| Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth, 1833 to p. no assistance, 670 |
| Perseverance, 990, 1363–1358 |
| Persevere through abuse and even injury, 1560 |
| Persistence and determination are omnipotent, 1355 Nothing in the World can take the place of p., 1355 |
| Person ribald, useless, drunken, outcast p. we have always wished to be, 24 |
| Personnel mine, 2070 |
| Persons of taste and cultivation, 108 |
| Peru with all her gold, 351 with its riches, 834 |
| Perverseness, 1359 is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart, 1359 |
| Pessimism snows of p., 2099 |
| Pest shunned as a p., 281 |
| Peter Pan, 2085 |
| Pew I know I’m in the wrong p., 1523 |
| Phenomenon America is … a blessed and hopeful p., 45 such a monstrous p., 676 |
| Phidias (5th century B.C.), 97 |
| Philadelphia must first be great in his own P., 817 |
| Philip II, King of Macedon (382–336 B.C.), 1224 |
| Philippine Islands, 2059, 2061 |
| Philistines battle between the literati and the P., 167 |
| Phillips, Wendell (1811–1884), 1274 |
| Philosophy know the enemy’s p., 1365 of Lincoln, 801 those who have been brought up in p., 1016 to p. and to the divine, 1229 |
| Phoenix like a young p., she will rise full plumed and glorious, 1067 |
| Physician is the servant of the art, 847 |
| Physicians for the young p.—we ought to throw in no medicine at all, 1038 Men are men before they are … p., 1150 |
| Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, 111 |
| Pickens, Francis W. (1805–1869), 559 |
| Picture best p. has not yet been painted, 111 |
| Pie promises and pye-crusts are made to be broken, 1546 Violence is as American as cherry p., 1889 |
| Pigeon that had starved to death, 78 |
| Pigmies giant power wielded by p., 706 will now start to squabble, 1913 |
| Pigs whether p. have wings, 1811 |
| Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo, 1964 |
| Pilgrims we ourselves must P. be, 1838 |
| Pillar of the state, 1028 |
| Pillars build a nation’s p. deep, 1234 if its [Capitol’s] lofty p. should fall 755 to help him endure and prevail, 1145 |
| Pitiless in a p. universe, 433 |
| Pity [has] a human face, 1464 |
| Pius XI, Pope (Achille Abrogio Damiano Ratti) (1857–1939), 917 |
| Place know the p. for the first time, 579 no p. like the old p., 1814 |
| Placidly Go p. amid the noise and the haste, 1114 |
| Plagiarism, 2077 |
| Plague on both your houses, 985 |
| Plains of Hesitation, 1823 wide and rising p., 350 |
| Plan cannot fail if the people are with us, 1332 follows out the p., 1290 for a year, plant a seed, 495 necessary if we are to p., 147 |
| Planet the particle and the p. are subject to the same laws, 972 sleepy and permanent p., 1118 See also Earth; Space Exploration |
| Planetary squanderers of p. capital, 309 |
| Planning drastic revision of strategic p., 1968 more wisdom in such [environmental] p., 541 |
| Plans, 1360–1362 Enjoy your achievements as well as your p., 1114 Make no little p., 1360 make p. fit the circumstances, 1362 |
| Plant If [you plan] for ten years, p. a tree, 495 no time to lose, p. it this afternoon, 1815 old men p. trees they will never sit under, 694 time to p., and a time to pluck up, 1810 |
| Play for nothing, 2030 no p. in them, for this comes after work, 1124 [policy] is like a p. in many acts, 1369 will go on, 1369 |
| Players all the men and women merely p., 1158 |
| Plays Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of p., 361 |
| Please to p. universally, 1787 to tax and to p., 1787 |
| Pleases just puts down what he damn p., 1768 |
| Pleasure from p. to p., 1195 generally comes from things, 923 of later cutting them down to size, 1266 we can find our greatest p., 1096 without conscience, 1697 |
| Pledge of Allegiance, 1363–1364 |
| Plenty curse of p., 15 |
| Plow For what avail the p. or sail,… if freedom fail, 641 like a ripe field of wheat where once drove p., 915 new ground, 391 |
| Plowshare America’s conquests are made with the plowshare, 2045 |
| Plumber cabinet of eight millionaires and one p., 1510 An excellent p. is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher, 568 |
| Plumbing not our affluence, or our p. … that grip the imagination of others, 1868 |
| Plunder Absence of p., 993 legal p., 993 partial p., 993 poor would p. the rich, 421 property as its prey and p., 1649 universal p., 993 |
| Plundering career of p. and blundering, 713 their wealth, 2040 |
| Plunge at once into the whirlpool of politics, 86 |
| Plutocracy predatory p. or predatory poverty, 1249 |
| Plutocrats Dedicate … Verses to p., 656 |
| Poem general was doing more for victory by writing a p., 1589 greatest p. is still unsung, 111 of my life, 2006 of New England, 1241 |
| Poems Here are entered by author and title the poems in this collection. Alger, Horatio, Jr., “Carving a Name,” 1215 Auden, Wystan Hugh, “Hymn to the United Nations,” 1856 Author unknown Bullfight critics row on row, 14 “Don’t Quit,” 1358 “I Shall Not Pass This Way Again,” 453 “Monday’s child is fair in face,” 200 “They talk about a ‘woman’s sphere,’” 2012 “Three Things,” 1239 Belloc, Hilaire, “Dedicatory Ode,” 682 Benét, Stephen Vincent, “Western Star,” 1542 Blake, William, “Auguries of Innocence,” 196 “The Divine Image,” 1464 Brooke, Rupert, “The Soldier,” 1720 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, “A Court Lady,” 1233 Browning, Robert, “Andrea Del Sarto,” 1840 “A Death in the Desert,” 700 “Paracelsus,” 1142 Bryant, William Cullen, “The Battle-Field,” 1829 Burnet, Dana, “Who Dreams Shall Live,” 457 Byron, Lord, “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” 1459 Carroll, Lewis, “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” 1811 Clark, Esther M., “A Plea,” 683 Clough, Arthur Hugh, “The Latest Decalogue,” 1805 Dante Alighieri, “Inferno,” 1211 Diderot, Denis, “Les Éleuthéromanes,” 965 Dowson, Ernest, “They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,” 460 Dryden, John, Absalom and Achitophel, 1960 “Horace, the Twenty-Ninth Ode of the Third Book,” 636 Eaton, Anne S., “The Business of Friendship,” 684 Ehrmann, Max, “Desiderata,” 1114 Eliot, T. S., “Little Gidding,” 579 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Boston,” 641 “A Nation’s Strength,” 1234 “Solution,” 1686 Fields, James T., “The Stars and Stripes,” 601 Foss, Sam Walter, “The House by the Side of the Road,” 685 Frost, Robert, “The Death of the Hired Man,” 860 “The Gift Outright,” 475 Galsworthy, John, “Errantry,” 4 Gérard, Rosemonde, “L’éternelle chanson,” 1130 Gray, Thomas, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” 1216 Guest, Edgar A., “It Couldn’t Be Done” 1841 Hale, Edward Everett, “Lend a Hand,” 899 Healey, Thomas F., “Give Me My Roses Now,” 1217 Hodges, Leigh Mitchell, “Give Them the Flowers Now,” 1218 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, “Dorothy Q., A Family Portrait,” 1090 “No Time Like the Old Time,” 1814 “Poem,” 135 “To an Insect,” 631 Hope, James Barron, “Our Heroic Dead,” 366 Housman, Alfred Edward, “Into my heart an air that kills,” 2093 “The laws of God, the laws of man,” 1008 Houston, Samuel, “There is a proud undying thought in man,” 593 Hughes, Langston, “Goodbye Christ,” 917 “Harlem,” 461 Keats, John, “Sonnet to Fanny Brawne,” 1219 Kingsley, Charles, “Old and New,” 1220 Kipling, Rudyard, “The Ballad of the King’s Jest” 824 “Our Lady of the Snows,” 2014 “Tommy,” 1723 Lazarus, Emma, “The New Colossus,” 1770 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, “Charles Sumner,” 371 Lowell, James Russell, “For an Autograph,” 587 “The Present Crisis,” 1838 “Sonnet IV,” 1252 “The Vision of Sir Launfal,” 2072 “Yussouf,” 1251 MacLeish, Archibald, “At the Lincoln Memorial,” 1853 Magee, John Gillespie, Jr., “High Flight,” 603 Markham, Edwin, “A Creed,” 136 “Lincoln, the Man of the People,” 1108 “Man-Making,” 1149 “The Vermin in the Dark,” 293 Marquis, Don, “A Roach of the Taverns,” 121 “What the Ants Are Saying,” 833 Masters, Edgar Lee, “John Hancock Otis,” 1452 McCrae, John, “In Flanders Fields,” 2048 McGuffey, William Holmes, “The Lark is up to meet the sun,” 470 Meredith, George, “For the Centenary of Garibaldi,” 915 Milton John, “A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle,” 563 “Paradise Regain’d,” 919 O’Reilly, John Boyle, “Distance,” 2034 Pope, Alexander, “An Essay on Criticism,” 2021 “Temple of Fame,” 594 Quarles, Francis, “Of common Devotion,” 1731 Rice, Grantland, “Alumnus Football,” 1993 Rittenhouse, Jessie B., “My Wage,” 1099 Robinson, Henry Morton, “Litany for D-Day: 1944,” 1474 Russell, George William (AE), “Salutation” 1866 Sandburg, Carl “Grass,” 1964 “Money, Politics, Love, and Glory,” 1426 “The People, Yes,” 1946 “Washington Monument by Night,” 464 Saxe, John Godfrey, “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” 879 Scott, Sir Walter, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1310 Seeger, Alan, “I Have a Rendezvous with Death,” 373 Service, Robert William, The Spell of the Yukon, 33 Smith, Minnie Richard, “Stick to Your Job,” 1356 Spencer, Herbert, “The Coming Slavery,” 1705 Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queene, 962 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, “Super Flumina Babylonis,” 375 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, “Idylls of the King,” 181 “In Memoriam A. H. H.,” 1135 “Locksley Hall,” 973, 2038 “To J.S.,” 377 “Ulysses,” 575 Van Doren, Mark, “Freedom,” 659 Van Dyke, Henry, “Four Things,” 1126 Virgil, “Moretum,” 1867 Wesley, John, “Rule of Conduct,” 452 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, “Protest,” 1695 “Solitude,” 1707 Wintle, Walter D., “The Man Who Thinks He Can,” 1436 Yeats, William Butler, “Easter 1916,” 1659 “The Municipal Gallery Revisited,” 690 “The Second Coming,” 454 Young, Edward, Night Thoughts, 1223 |
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