Chapter EVENING to EXHIBITION of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

EVENING to EXHIBITION

EVENING.—How still the evening is,
As hush’d on purpose to grace harmony!

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Scene 3. (Claudio.)

Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 598.

EVENTS.—Certain signs precede certain events.

Cicero. Certis rebus, &c.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Campbell.—Lochiel.

EVIL.—None are all evil.

Byron.—The Corsair, Canto I. Stanza 12.

The privilege that rich men have in evil,
Is, that they go unpunish’d to the devil.

May.—The Old Couple, Act V.

Evil, be thou my good.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 110.

From seeming evil still educing good.

Thomson.—A Hymn, Line 114.

Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act IV. Scene 2. (Griffith to Queen Katherine.)

The evil that men do, lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Anthony to the Citizens.)

The sins we do, people behold with optics
Which shew them ten times more than common vices,
And often multiply them.

Fletcher.—Thierry and Theoderet, Act I. Scene 1.

EVILS.—Hoping, for my excuse, ’twill be confest,
That of two evils I have chose the least.

Prior.—To Mr. Harley.

EVILS.—Of two evils the less is always to be chosen.

Thomas À Kempis.—Book III. Chap. XII. Div. 2.

’Twas always held, and ever will,
By sage mankind, discreeter,
To anticipate a lesser ill
Than undergo a greater.

Shenstone.—To the Memory of an Agreeable Lady, Vol. I.