The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘This Land is Your Land’ (1956 song)
7.109 Nell Gwyn 1650-87
Pray, good people, be civil. I am the Protestant whore.
In Oxford, during the Popish Terror, 1681, in B. Bevan ‘Nell Gwyn’ (1969) ch. 13
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8.1 Emperor Hadrian A.D. 76-138
Animula vagula blandula,
Hospes comesque corporis,
Quae nunc abibis in loca
Pallidula rigida nudula,
Nec ut soles dabis iocos!
Ah! gentle, fleeting, wav’ring sprite,
Friend and associate of this clay!
To what unknown region borne,
Wilt thou now wing thy distant flight?
No more with wonted humour gay,
But pallid, cheerless, and forlorn.
In J. W. Duff (ed.) ‘Minor Latin Poets’ (1934) p. 445, translated by Byron as ‘Adrian’s Address to His Soul
When Dying’
8.2 Rider Haggard (Sir Henry Rider Haggard) 1856-1925
She who must be obeyed.
‘She’ (1887) passim
8.3 C. F. S. Hahnemann 1755-1843
Similia similibus curantur.
Like cures like.
Motto of homoeopathic medicine. Hahnemann seems to have used this formula, but with curentur: ‘Let
similars be treated by similars’. Paracelsus (1493-1541), not acknowledged as an influence by Hahnemann,
wrote Simile similis cura: non contrarium in ‘Fragmenta Medica’
8.4 Earl Haig 1861-1928
A very weak-minded fellow I am afraid, and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last
person who has sat on him!
Of the 17th Earl of Derby, in a letter to Lady Haig, 14 January 1918: R. Blake ‘Private Papers of Douglas
Haig’ (1952) ch. 16
Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the
wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.