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| num = 1

| text = To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of ''la carrière ouverte aux talents''—the tools to him that can handle them.

| author = [[Author:Lockhart|Lockhart]]

| work = ''Sir Walter Scott in London and Westminster Review'', 1838

| note =

| page = 2

| num = 2

| text = A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a , "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

| author = [[Author:Plutarch|Plutarch]]

| work = ''Laconic Apothegms''. ''Remarkable Speeches of Some Obscure Men''

| note =

| page = 2

| num = 3

| text = Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil atque artes valere nisi natura.

| author = [[Author:Quintilian|Quintilian]]

| work = ''Procemium''

| place = I. 4.

| note =

| page = 2

| num = 4

| text = Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie sind.

| author = [[Author:Jean Paul|Jean Paul Richter]]

| work = ''[[Titan]]''

| place = Zykel 26.

| note =

| page = 2

| num = 5

| text = pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.

| author = [[Author:Seneca|Seneca]]

| work = Épistles

| place = 76.

| note

| seealso =(See also {{sc|[[Author:Samuel Butler|Butler]]}})

| page = 2

| num = 6

| text = The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men got into the round holes.

| author = [[Author:Sydney Smith|Sydney Smith]]

| work = as quoted in ''Punch''

| place =

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| page = 2

| num = 7

| text = We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole.

| author = [[Author:Sydney Smith|Sydney Smith]]

| work = ''Sketches of Moral Philosophy''

| place =

| note

| seealso =

| page = 2

| num = 8

| text = <poem>Read my little fable:

| author = [[Author:Tennyson|Tennyson]]

| work = ''The Flowers''

| place =

| note

| seealso =

| page = 2

| num = 9

| text = Les sont toujours de trouver de dans les bons.

| trans = The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good

| author = [[Author:Vauvenargues|Vauvenargues]]

| work = ''[[]]''

| place = CIII.

| note

| seealso =

| page = 2

| num = 10

| text = Possunt posse videntur.

| author = [[Author:|Vergil]]

| work = [[Aeneid]]

| place = V. 231.

| note

| seealso =

| page = 2

<section begin="ABSENCE"/>{{Hoyt topic|Absence}}

{{c|(See also {{sc|{{Hoyt topic link|Memory}}}})}}

| num = 11

| text = Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

| author = [[Author:Thomas Haynes Bayly|Thomas Haynes Bayly]]

| work = Isle of Beauty

| page = 2

| num = 12

| text = <poem>Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler,

And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

| author = [[Author:George Gordon Byron|Byron]]

| work = [[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]].

| place = Canto III. St. 22

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| num = 13

| text Absent in body, but present in spirit.

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| page = 2

| num = 14

| text = <poem>Where’er I roam, whatever realms to see,

| author = [[Author:Oliver Goldsmith|Goldsmith]]

| = [[ Goldsmith|]]

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| num = 15

| text = Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

| author = [[Author:Homer|Homer]]

| = [[]]

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| note = {{sc|[[Author:Alexander Pope|Pope's]]}} trans.

| page = 2

| num = 16

| text = <poem>{{gap}}{{gap}}In the hope to meet

Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.</poem>

| author = [[Author:Ben Jonson|Ben Jonson]]

| = [[ ]]

| place = LIX.

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| num = 17

| text = <poem>Ever absent, ever near;

| author = [[Author:Ferenc Kazinczy|Francis Kazinczy]]

| work = [[Separation]].

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| num = 18

| text = <poem>What shall I do with all the days and hours

| author = [[Author:Frances Anne Kemble|Frances Anne Kemble]]

| work = [[Absence]]

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| num = 19

| text = Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam

| author = [[Author:Thomas |Thomas ]]

| work = [[Imitation of Christ]]

| place = Bk. I. Ch.. 1

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| num = 20

| text = Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

| author = [[Author:Lamb|Lamb]]

| work = Amicus Redivivus

| place =

| note

| seealso =

| page = 2

| num = 21

| text = For with G. D., to be absent from the body is

| author = [[Author:Charles Lamb|Lamb]]

| = [[]]

| page = 2

| num = 22

| text = L'absence diminue les passions et

| trans = Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

| author = [[Author:François La Rochefoucauld|La Rochefoucauld]]

| work = Maximes.

| place = 276.

| page = 2

| num = 23

| text = <poem>Oft in the tranquil hour of night,

| author = [[Author:George Linley|George Linley]]

| = [[ Linley|]]

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| num = 24

| text = <poem>Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream,

| author = [[Author:George Linley|George Linley]]

| = [[ ]]

| page = 2

| num = 25

| text = <poem>For there’s nae luck about the house;

| note = Attributed to {{sc|W. J. Mickle}}—''There's Nae Luck Aboot{{sic}} the House. Ballad of Cumnor Hall''. Claimed for {{sc|Jean Adam}}. Evidence in favor of {{sc|Mickle}}. Claimed also for {{sc|MacPherson}}. MS. copy found among his papers after his death.

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