Quotes from other authors
101 quotes from authors quoted once or twice, in alphabetical order. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Abraham Lincoln
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“You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.”
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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”
Alexander Pushkin
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“Frost and sun, the day is wondrous! / Thou still art slumbering, charming friend. / 'Tis time, O Beauty, to awaken: / Ope thine eyes, now in sweetness closed, / To meet the Northern Dawn of Morning / Thyself a north-star do thou appear!”
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“God’s birdlet knows / Nor care, nor toil; / Nor weaves it painfully / An everlasting nest. / Thro' the long night on the twig it slumbers; / When rises the red sun / Birdie listens to the voice of God / And it starts, and it sings.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
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“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
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“It is just possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says.”
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“But, dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.”
Catullus
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“Living, Lesbia, we should e’en be loving. Sour severity, tongue of eld maligning, All be to us a penny’s estimation.”
Du Fu
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“My old wife paints a chess-board on paper. / My little sons hammer needles to make fish-hooks. / I have many illnesses, therefore my only necessities are medicines; / Besides these, what more can so humble a man as I ask?”
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“Oh! she is good, the little rain! and well she knows our need / Who cometh in the time of spring to aid the sun-drawn seed; / She wanders with a friendly wind through silent nights unseen, / The furrows feel her happy tears, and lo! the land is green.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“Helen, thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicèan barks of yore / That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, / The weary way-worn wanderer bore / To his own native shore.”
Edmondo De Amicis
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“Labor does not engender dirt. Never say of a laborer coming from his work, "He is filthy." You should say, "He has on his garments the signs, the traces, of his toil."”
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“Courage, then, little soldier of the immense army. Your books are your arms, your class is your squadron, the field of battle is the whole earth, and the victory is human civilization.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.”
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“If thou must love me, let it be for nought / Except for love’s sake only.”
Emily Dickinson
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“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all”
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“There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry.”
Ernest Renan
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“The true men of progress are those who profess as their starting-point a profound respect for the past. All that we do, all that we are, is the outcome of ages of labour.”
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“A man’s worth must be measured by his faculty for admiration.”
Ferdowsi
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“Yet Feridún was not an angel, nor / Composed of musk or ambergris. By justice / And generosity he gained his fame. / Do thou but exercise these princely virtues, / And thou wilt be renowned as Feridún.”
Fernando Pessoa
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“Like to a ship that storms urge on its course, By its own trials our soul is surer made. The very things that make the voyage worse Do make it better; its peril is its aid.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”
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“If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
Frederick Douglass
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“When I was sent of errands, I always took my book with me, and by going one part of my errand quickly, I found time to get a lesson before my return.”