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THE NEW CYCLOPEDIA

OF

Practical Quotations



A

ABHORRENCE

1

The self-same thing they will abhor
One way, and long another for.


2

⁠Boils and plagues
Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd
Further than seen.

Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 37.


3
How abhorred in my imagination it is!
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 206.


4

*⁠*⁠*⁠few things loves better
Than to abhor himself.

Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 60.


5

*⁠*⁠*⁠more abhorr'd
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

Troilus and Cressida. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 18.


6

*⁠*⁠*⁠make the abhorrent eye
Roll back and close.

ABILITY

7
He'll find a way.
Barrie—Sentimental Tommy. (Corp's belief in Tommy and Tommy's in himself.)


8
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.


9

For as our modern wits behold,
Mounted a pick-back on the old,
Much farther off, much further he,
Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.

Same idea in Macaulay Essay on Sir James Mackintosh. (See also Coleridge, Didacus Stella, Herbert, Seneca.)


10

He could raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve 'em in a trice:
As if Divinity had catch'd
The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd.


11
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.
Cervantes—Don Quixote. Pt. I. Bk. III. Ch. XI.


12
Etiam illud adjungo, sæpius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.

I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Cicero—Oratio Pro Licinio Archia. VII.


13
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
Coleridge—The Friend. Sect. I. Essay VIII.
(See also Butler)


14
Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.
Didactus Stella—Lucan. Vol. II. 10. Quoted by Burton—Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
(See also Butler)


15
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.


16
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.


17
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.


18
A Dwarf on a Giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.
(See also Butler)


19
C'est une grande habileté que de savoir cacher son habileté.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

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