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Evangeline. Part i. 3.
And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
Evangeline. Part ii. 5.
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.[616-1]
The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.
Into a world unknown,--the corner-stone of a nation![616-2]
The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.[616-3]
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
The Herons of Elmwood.
He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.[616-4]
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Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiv.
โโHe is as like one, as one egg is like another.[789:5]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxvii.
โโYou can see farther into a millstone than he.[789:6]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxviii.
[790]
โโSancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxx.
โโ"Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee."[790:1]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxi.
โโBuilding castles in the air,[790:2] and making yourself a laughing-stock.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxi.
โโIt is good to live and learn.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxii.
โโHe is as mad as a March hare.[790:3]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโI must follow him through thick and thin.[790:4]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโThere is no love lost between us.[790:5]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโIn the night all cats are gray.[790:6]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโAll is not gold that glisters.[790:7]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโI can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโHonesty is the best policy.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโTime ripens all things. No man is born wise.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโA good name is better than riches.[790:8]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโI drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโAn honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
โโHeaven's help is better than early rising.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiv.
โโI have other fish to fry.[790:9]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxv.
[791]
โโThere is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.[791:1]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxv.
โโBut all in good time.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvi.
โโMatters will go swimmingly.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvi.
โโMany go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii.
โโThey had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii.
โโGood wits jump;[791:2] a word to the wise is enough.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii.
โโYou may as well expect pears from an elm.[791:3]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xl.
โโMake it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.[791:4]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xlii.
โโYou cannot eat your cake and have your cake;[791:5] and store 's no sore.[791:6]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.
โโDiligence is the mother of good fortune.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.
โโWhat a man has, so much he is sure of.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.
โโWhen a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.
โโThe pot calls the kettle black.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.
โโThis peck of troubles.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. liii.
โโWhen thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.[791:7]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. liv.
โโMany count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lv.
[792]
โโMy thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lvii.
โโLiberty . . . is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii.
โโAs they use to say, spick and span new.[792:1]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii.
โโI think it a very happy accident.[792:2]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii.
โโI shall be as secret as the grave.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxii.
โโNow, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.[792:3]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxviii.
โโRome was not built in a day.[792:4]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxi.
โโThe ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxi.
โโNever look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.[792:5]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxiv.
โโDon't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla).
โโMy heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.[792:6]
The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla).
[784:9] See Shakespeare, page 101.
[785:1] See Shakespeare, page 46.
[785:2] See Bacon, page 167.
[785:3] See Shakespeare, page 71.
[785:4] He had a face like a benediction.โJarvis's translation.
[785:5] See Shakespeare, page 44.
[785:6] See Heywood, page 18.
[785:7] See Heywood, page 17.
[785:8] See Heywood, page 19.
[785:9] See Middleton, page 172.
[785:10] See Shakespeare, page 143.
[786:1] See Shakespeare, page 45.
[786:2] See Butler, page 211.
[786:3] See Chaucer, page 5.
[786:4] See Lyly, page 33.
[787:1] See Scott, page 493.
[787:2] See Heywood, page 10.
[787:3] See Heywood, page 20.
[787:4] See Wither, page 200.
[787:5] See Shakespeare, page 93.
[787:6] See Heywood, page 18.
[787:7] See Heywood, page 15. Also Plutarch, page 740.
[787:8] See Marlowe, page 41.
[787:9] See Middleton, page 172.
[788:1] I would do what I pleased; and doing what I pleased, I should have my will; and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.โJarvis's translation.
[788:2]
For let our finger ache, and it endues
Our other healthful members even to that sense
Of pain.โOthello, act iii. sc. 4.
[788:3] The painter Orbaneja of Ubeda, if he chanced to draw a cock, he wrote under it, "This is a cock," lest the people should take it for a fox.โJarvis's translation.
[788:4] See Pliny the Younger, page 748.
[789:1] See Rabelais, page 773.
[789:2] Spenser: Britain's Ida, canto v. stanza 1. Ellerton: George a-Greene (a Ballad). Whetstone: Rocke of Regard. Burns: To Dr. Blacklock. Colman: Love Laughs at Locksmiths, act i.
[789:3] See Heywood, page 9.
[789:4] See Fortescue, page 7.
[789:5] See Rabelais, page 773. Also Shakespeare, page 77.
[789:6] See Heywood, page 13.
[790:1] Sit thee down, chaff-threshing churl! for let me sit where I will, that is the upper end to thee.โJarvis's translation.
This is generally placed in the mouth of Macgregor: "Where Macgregor sits, there is the head of the table." Emerson quotes it, in his "American Scholar," as the saying of Macdonald, and Theodore Parker as the saying of the Highlander.
[790:2] See Burton, page 187.
[790:3] See Heywood, page 18.
[790:4] See Spenser, page 28.
[790:5] See Middleton, page 173.
[790:6] See Heywood, page 11.
[790:7] See Chaucer, page 5.
[790:8] See Publius Syrus, page 708.
[790:9] See Rabelais, page 773.
[791:1] To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose.โEcclesiastes iii. 1.
[791:2] See Sterne, page 378.
[791:3] See Publius Syrus, page 712.
[791:4] See Chaucer, page 4.
[791:5] See Heywood, page 20.
[791:6] See Heywood, page 11.
[791:7] See Burton, page 193.
[792:1] See Middleton, page 172.
[792:2] See Middleton, page 174.
[792:3] Blessing on him who invented sleep,โthe mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise.โJarvis's translation.
[792:4] See Heywood, page 15.
[792:5] See Longfellow, page 613.
[792:6] See Byron, page
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