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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Trust |
| The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. Bacon—Essays. Of Counsel. | 1 |
| Build a little fence of trust Around to-day; Fill the space with loving work, And therein stay; Look not through the sheltering bars Upon to-morrow; God will help thee bear what comes Of joy or sorrow. Mary Frances Butts—Trust. | 2 |
| Who would not rather trust and be deceived? Eliza Cook—Love On. | 3 |
| Trust in God, and keep your powder dry. Cromwell. See Blacker—Col. Oliver’s Advice. In Ballads of Ireland. I. 191. | 4 |
| A little trust that when we die We reap our sowing, and so—Good-bye. George B. DuMaurier—Trilby. Inscribed on his Memorial Tablet, Hampstead Churchyard. | 5 |
| Dear, I trusted you As holy men trust God. You could do naught That was not pure and loving—though the deed Might pierce me unto death. George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III. | 6 |
| Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. Emerson—Essays. On Prudence. | 7 |
| I too Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove. Homer—Iliad. Bk. XVII. L. 622. Bryant’s trans. | 8 |
| Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed. Isaiah. XXXVI. 6. | 9 |
| O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour’s breast, And thus to journey on! Longfellow—Hymn. St. 5. | 10 |
| To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. George MacDonald—The Marquis of Lossie. Ch. IV. | 11 |
| That, in tracing the shade, I shall find out the sun, Trust to me! Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Lucile. Pt. II. Canto VI. St. 15. | 12 |
| “Eyes to the blind” Thou art, O God! Earth I no longer see, Yet trustfully my spirit looks to thee. Alice Bradley Neal—Blind. Pt. II. | 13 |
| You may trust him in the dark. Roman proverb cited by Cicero. | 14 |
| I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know; And so far will I trust thee. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 114. | 15 |
| Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent. Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 185. | 16 |
| My life upon her faith! Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 295. | 17 |
| I am sorry I must never trust thee more, But count the world a stranger for thy sake: The private wound is deepest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 69. | 18 |
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