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If it be banish'd from the frosty head,
If it be banish'd from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?
Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''Henry VI'', Part II. Act V, scene 1, line 166.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''Henry VI'', Part II, Act V, scene 1, line 166.
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
An the last loäd hoäm.
An the last loäd hoäm.
** [[Alfred Tennyson]], The Promise of May. Song. Act II.
** [[Alfred Tennyson]], The Promise of May. Song, Act II.
To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
** Vaughan—Rules and Lessons. St. 8.
** Vaughan—Rules and Lessons, Stanza 8.

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.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

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.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.

 Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.

 Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
  • O, where is loyalty?

If it be banish'd from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel.

To be true to each other, let 'appen what maäy

   Till the end o' the daäy
   An the last loäd hoäm.

To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.

    • Vaughan—Rules and Lessons, Stanza 8.