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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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George Barlow. (1847– ?)
What men have done can still be done
And shall be done to-day.
And shall be done to-day.
The Song of Abu Klea.
Joel Chandler Harris. (1848–1908)
Brer Fox, he lay low.
Legends of the old Plantation.
Ez soshubble ez a baskit er kittens.
Legends of the old Plantation.
Lazy fokes’s stummucks don’t git tired.
Plantation Proverbs.
Jay-bird don’t rob his own nes’.
Plantation Proverbs.
Licker talks mighty loud w’en it gits loose from de jug.
Plantation Proverbs.
Hungry rooster don’t cackle w’en he fine a wum.
Plantation Proverbs.
Youk’n hide de fier, but w’at you gwine do wid de smoke?
Plantation Proverbs.
Arthur James, Earl of Balfour. (1848–1930)
The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.
The Foundations of Belief.
William Ernest Henley. (1849–1903)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
To R. T. H. B.