The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

By form assisted, flew from thy embrace,
And rebel light obscured thy reverend dusky face.
With form and matter, time and place did join;
Body, thy foe, with these did leagues combine,
To spoil thy peaceful realm, and ruin all thy line.
‘Upon Nothing’ (1680)
6.64 John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937
The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest...The American beauty rose
can be produced in the splendour and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by
sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it.
In W. J. Ghent ‘Our Benevolent Feudalism’ (1902) p. 29; ‘American Beauty Rose’ became the title of a song
(1950) by Hal David and others.
6.65 Knute Rockne 1888-1931
See Joseph P. Kennedy (11.22) in Volume I
6.66 Gene Roddenberry 1921-91
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission...to boldly go where no
man has gone before.
‘Star Trek’ (television series, from 1966) introductory words
Beam us up, Mr Scott.
‘Star Trek’ (television series, from 1966) ‘Gamesters of Triskelion’; usually quoted: ‘Beam me up, Scotty’)
6.67 Theodore Roethke 1908-63
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
‘The Waking’ (1953)
6.68 Samuel Rogers 1763-1855
Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
‘Human Life’ (1819) l. 49.
But there are moments which he calls his own,
Then, never less alone than when alone,
Those whom he loved so long and sees no more,
Loved and still loves—not dead—but gone before,
He gathers round him.
‘Human Life’ (1819) l. 755
By many a temple half as old as Time.
‘Italy. A Farewell’ (1828) 2, 5.