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If it be banish'd from the frosty head, |
If it be banish'd from the frosty head, |
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Where shall it find a harbour in the earth? |
Where shall it find a harbour in the earth? |
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** [[William Shakespeare]], ''Henry VI'', Part II |
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''Henry VI'', Part II, Act V, scene 1, line 166. |
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You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; |
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; |
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Till the end o' the daäy |
Till the end o' the daäy |
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An the last loäd hoäm. |
An the last loäd hoäm. |
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** [[Alfred Tennyson]], The Promise of May. Song |
** [[Alfred Tennyson]], The Promise of May. Song, Act II. |
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To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true. |
To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true. |
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** Vaughan—Rules and Lessons |
** Vaughan—Rules and Lessons, Stanza 8. |
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Revision as of 03:45, 5 May 2011
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 271.
Fidelity
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France.
I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter XII.
Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak, Not weak of soul.—I will but hold in sight Thy marvelous beauty.—Here is
She you seek!
- W. J. Linton—Iphigenia at Aulis.
So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book V, line 896.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, line 336.
Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
- Alexander Pope, Essay on Man. Ep. I, line 83.
Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.
Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
- Seneca, Agamemnon. 287.
Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
- Seneca, Agamemnon. 934.
- O, where is loyalty?
If it be banish'd from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?
- William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act V, scene 1, line 166.
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, scene 1, line 195.
To be true to each other, let 'appen what maäy
Till the end o' the daäy An the last loäd hoäm.
- Alfred Tennyson, The Promise of May. Song, Act II.
To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
- Vaughan—Rules and Lessons, Stanza 8.