The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Help of the helpless, O, abide with me.
Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou, who changest not, abide with me.
‘Abide with Me’ (probably written in 1847). See St Luke ch. 24, v. 29: ‘Abide with us: for it is toward
evening, and the day is far spent’
12.150 George Lyttelton (first Baron Lyttleton) 1709-73
Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;
A woman’s noblest station is retreat.
‘Advice to a Lady’ (1773)
12.151 E. R. Bulwer, first Earl of Lytton
See Owen Meredith (1.114) in Volume II
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1.1 Ward McAllister 1827-95
There are only about four hundred people in New York society.
Interview with Charles H. Crandall in ‘New York Tribune’, 1888, in ‘Dictionary of American Biography’ vol.
11 (1933)
1.2 Alexander McArthur and H. Kingsley Long
Battles and sex are the only free diversions in slum life. Couple them with drink, which costs
money, and you have the three principal outlets for that escape complex which is for ever
working in the tenement dweller’s subconscious mind.
‘No Mean City’ (1935) ch. 4
1.3 Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
‘Congressional Record’ 19 April 1951, vol. 97, pt. 3, p. 4125
I came through and I shall return.
On reaching Australia, 20 March 1942, having broken through Japanese lines on his way from Corregidor;
‘New York Times’ 21 March 1942, p. 1
1.4 Thomas Babington Macaulay (first Baron Macaulay of Rothley Temple) 1800-59
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on
the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.
‘Biographical Essays’ (1857) ‘Frederic the Great’