John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
Sir Samuel Garth 1661-1719 John Bartlett
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| To die is landing on some silent shore Where billows never break, nor tempests roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, ’t is o’er. |
| The Dispensary. Canto iii. Line 225. |
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| I see the right, and I approve it too, Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. 1 |
| Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii. 20 (translated by Tate and Stonestreet, edited by Garth). |
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| For all their luxury was doing good. 2 |
| Claremont. Line 149. |
| Note 1. I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.—Petrarch: Sonnet ccxxv. canzone xxi. To Laura in Life. See Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Quotation 15. [back] |
| Note 2. And learn the luxury of doing good.—Oliver Goldsmith: The Traveller, line 22. George Crabbe: Tales of the Hall, book iii. Graves: The Epicure. [back] |