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Familiar Quotations

Brooks

A brook would lose its song if God removed the rocks.–Anonymous

Scholars may quote Plato in their studies, but the hearts of millions will quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.–Conway

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.–John Donne

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,— As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.–John Dryden

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.–W. Secker

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.–William Shakespeare

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.–William Shakespeare

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.–Henry David Thoreau

Brooks – "Bear"

Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no harm do terrify us more than men in steel with bloody purposes.–T. B. Aldrich

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruits and man is his own gardener.–James Allen

• Preface viii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Brooks 1
• Brooks – "Bear" 1
• Use in Literature 4
• Brooks 4
• Brooks – "Anne" 16
• Brooks – "Appearance" 16
• Brooks – "Banks" 17
• Brooks – "Bear" 18
• Brooks – "Being" 19
• Brooks – "Beyond" 20
• Brooks – "Bird's" 21
• Brooks – "Bound" 21
• Brooks – "Boys" 22
• Brooks – "Bridges" 22
• Brooks – "Called" 23
• Brooks – "Capitally" 24
• Brooks – "Carried" 24
• Brooks – "Carter" 25
• Brooks – "Childhood" 26
• Brooks – "Clear" 26
• Brooks – "Close" 27
• Brooks – "Came" 28
• Brooks – "Country" 30
• Brooks – "Day" 31
• Brooks – "Deep" 33
• Brooks – "Drink" 33
• Brooks – "Edge" 34
• Brooks – "Evening" 35
• Brooks – "Far" 35
• Brooks – "Farm" 36
• Brooks – "Feet" 40
• Brooks – "Fish" 41
• Brooks – "Followed" 42
• Brooks – "Forded" 43
• Brooks – "Form" 44
• Brooks – "Finding" 45
• Brooks – "George" 46
• Brooks – "Go" 47
• Brooks – "Gone" 47
• Brooks – "Great" 48
• Brooks – "Green" 49
• Brooks – "Hand" 50
• Brooks – "Head" 50
• Brooks – "Heard" 51
• Brooks – "Heart" 53
• Brooks – "Hill" 53
• Brooks – "Home" 54
• Brooks – "Horse" 54
• Brooks – "Hot" 54
• Brooks – "Hours" 55
• Brooks – "House" 56
• Brooks – "Keeping" 57
• Brooks – "Lake" 58
• Brooks – "Laughing" 58
• Brooks – "Leaps" 59
• Brooks – "Left" 59
• Brooks – "Little" 61
• Brooks – "Looked" 66
• Brooks – "Love" 67
• Brooks – "Made" 68
• Brooks – "Man" 70
• Brooks – "Masterful" 72
• Brooks – "Meadow" 73
• Brooks – "Miles" 74
• Brooks – "Miss" 74
• Brooks – "Mother" 75
• Brooks – "Mountains" 75
• Brooks – "Musical" 76
• Brooks – "Names" 77
• Brooks – "Near" 78
• Brooks – "Night" 79
• Brooks – "Oldest" 80
• Brooks – "Once" 81
• Brooks – "Opened" 82
• Brooks – "Opposition" 83
• Brooks – "Orders" 83
• Brooks – "Party" 84
• Brooks – "Passing" 84
• Brooks – "Place" 85
• Brooks – "Poor" 86
• Brooks – "Position" 86
• Brooks – "Presently" 87
• Brooks – "Rest" 87
• Brooks – "Return" 88
• Brooks – "Rivers" 88
• Brooks – "Road" 89
• Brooks – "Rose" 90
• Brooks – "Ran" 91
• Brooks – "Salmon" 93
• Brooks – "Sent" 94
• Brooks – "Shall" 95
• Brooks – "Side" 95
• Brooks – "Silently" 96
• Brooks – "Sat" 97
• Brooks – "Soon" 98
• Brooks – "Sounds" 99
• Brooks – "Spirit" 99
• Brooks – "Stream" 100
• Brooks – "Sun" 101
• Brooks – "Sure" 101
• Brooks – "Taking" 102
• Brooks – "Talk" 102
• Brooks – "Things" 103
• Brooks – "Thought" 103
• Brooks – "Thirst" 106
• Brooks – "Thou" 106
• Brooks – "Thus" 107
• Brooks – "Times" 107
• Brooks – "Trees" 108
• Brooks – "Trout" 109
• Brooks – "True" 109
• Brooks – "Valley" 110
• Brooks – "Voice" 111
• Brooks – "Wait" 112
• Brooks – "Walked" 112
• Brooks – "Water" 114
• Brooks – "Wind" 116
• Brooks – "Woman" 117
• Brooks – "Woods" 117
• Brooks – "Years" 118
• Brooks – "Young" 118
• Nonfiction Usage 120
• Lyrical Usage 120
• Script Usage 120
• Bible Usage 120
• Journalism Usage 121
• Legal Usage 168
• Governmental Usage 168
• Patent Usage 168
• Bibliographic Usage 206
• Encyclopedic Usage 352
• Lexicographic Usage 383
• Index 444