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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘<strong>The</strong> Biglow Papers’ (Second Series, 1867) no. 4 ‘A Message <strong>of</strong> Jeff. Davis in Secret Session’<br />

<strong>The</strong>re comes Poe with his raven like Barnaby Rudge,<br />

Three-fifths <strong>of</strong> him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge.<br />

‘A Fable for Critics’ (1848) l. 1215.<br />

No man is born into the world, whose work<br />

Is not born with him; there is always work,<br />

And tools to work withal, for those who will:<br />

And blesséd are the horny hands <strong>of</strong> toil!<br />

‘A Glance Behind the Curtain’ (1844)<br />

<strong>The</strong>se pearls <strong>of</strong> thought in Persian gulfs were bred,<br />

Each s<strong>of</strong>tly lucent as a rounded moon;<br />

<strong>The</strong> diver Omar plucked them from their bed,<br />

Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.<br />

‘In a Copy <strong>of</strong> Omar Khayy m’<br />

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.<br />

‘On the Capture <strong>of</strong> Fugitive Slaves’ (1854)<br />

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,<br />

In the strife <strong>of</strong> Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Present Crisis’ (1845)<br />

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—<br />

Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,<br />

Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Present Crisis’ (1845)<br />

New occasions teach new duties: Time makes ancient good uncouth;<br />

<strong>The</strong>y must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast <strong>of</strong> Truth.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Present Crisis’ (1845)<br />

May is a pious fraud <strong>of</strong> the almanac.<br />

‘Under the Willows’ (1869) l. 21<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is no good in arguing with the inevitable. <strong>The</strong> only argument available with an east wind<br />

is to put on your overcoat.<br />

‘Democracy and other Addresses’ (1887) ‘Democracy’<br />

12.134 Robert Lowell 1917-77<br />

My eyes have seen what my hand did.<br />

‘Dolphin’ (1973)<br />

Terrible that old life <strong>of</strong> decency<br />

without unseemly intimacy<br />

or quarrels, when the unemancipated woman<br />

still had her Freudian papa and maids!<br />

‘During Fever’ (1959)

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