The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies,
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
‘Among the Flowers’ (1878) ‘Light’.
2.170 Lord Bowen 1835-94
The rain, it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella:
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just’s umbrella.
In Walter Sichel ‘Sands of Time’ (1923) ch. 4
When I hear of an ‘equity’ in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room—
looking for a black hat—which isn’t there.
In John Alderson Foote ‘Pie-Powder’ (1911) p. 25
2.171 E. E. Bowen 1836-1901
Forty years on, when afar and asunder
Parted are those who are singing to-day.
‘Forty Years On’ (Harrow School Song, published 1886)
Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up!
Till the field ring again and again,
With the tramp of the twenty-two men,
Follow up!
‘Forty Years On’ (Harrow School Song, published 1886)
2.172 Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they do, their victims lie strewn
around.
‘The Death of the Heart’ (1938) pt. 1, ch. 8
It is about five o’clock in an evening that the first hour of spring strikes—autumn arrives in the
early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
‘The Death of the Heart’ (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1
Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
‘The Death of the Heart’ (1938) pt. 2, ch. 2
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
‘The House in Paris’ (1935) pt. 1, ch. 2