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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.

Oscar Wilde—Importance of Being Earnest. Act I

2

Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair,
And the brow that's all furrowed, and wrinkled with care.
I kiss the dear fingers, so toil-worn for me,
Oh, God bless you and keep you, Mother Machree.

Rida Johnson Young—Mother Machree

MOTIVE

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Iago's soliloquy—the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!

Coleridge—Shakespeare. Notes on Othello

4

What makes life dreary is the want of motive.

George Eliot—Daniel Deronda. Bk. VIII. Ch.-LXV

5

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.

Emerson—Essays. Fate

6

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions,
Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

Lowell—A Fable for Critics. L. 250

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Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed

to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

George Washington—Social Maxims. Difference of Opinion no Crime.

MOUNTAINS

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Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crown'd him long ago
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow.

Byron—Manfred. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 62

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'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Campbell—Pleasures of Hope. Pt. I. L. 7.

10

Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky.
Campbell—Pleasures of Hope. Pt. I. L. 4.
li Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

Cowper—The Task. Bk. II. L. 17.

To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
Henry Ellis—Original Letters. Second Series.
P. 312.
 | seealso = (See also Horace)
 | topic = Mountains
 | page = 532
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{{Hoyt quote
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 | text = <poem>Over the hills, and over the main,
To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;
The Queen commands, and we'll obey,
Over the hills and far away.
George Farquhar—The Recruiting Officer.
Act II. Sc. 2.
Over the hills and far away.
Gay—The Beggar's Opera. Act I. Sc. 1.
 | seealso = (See also Henley, Merry Companion, Tennyson, also Farquhar under Music)
 | topic = Mountains
 | page = 532
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 | num =
 | text = <poem>Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

Goldsmith—The Deserted Village. L. 192.

What is the voice of strange command
Calling you still, as friend calls friend,
With love that cannot brook delay,
To rise and follow the ways that wend
Over the hills and far away.
Henley—Rhymes and Rhythms. 1.
 | seealso = (See also Gay)
 | topic = Mountains
 | page = 532
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{{Hoyt quote
 | num =
 | text = <poem>HeavM on Olympus tottering Ossa stood;
On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XI. L. 387
 | note = Pope's trans.
 | seealso = (See also Horace, Ovid, Rabelais, Vergil)
 | topic = Mountains
 | page = 532
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{{Hoyt quote
 | num =
 | text = <poem>Quid dignum tanto feret hie promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.
What will this boaster produce worthy of
this mouthing? The mountains are in labor;
a ridiculous mouse will be born.
Horace—Ars Poetica. 138. Atheneus—
Deipnosophists. 14. 7. (A preserved fragment.) Phedrus. IV. 22.
 | seealso = (See also Ellis, Tachos)
 | topic = Mountains
 | page = 532
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{{Hoyt quote
 | num =
 | text = <poem>Pelion imposuisse Olympo.
To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
Horace—Odes. Bk. III. 4. 52.
 | seealso = (See also Homer)
 | topic = Mountains
 | page = 532
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{{Hoyt quote
 | num =
 | text = <poem>Daily with souls that cringe and plot,
We Sinais climb and know it not.
 | author = Lowell
 | work = The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude
to Pt. I.

Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled
Pelion.
Ovid—Metamorphoses. I.
 | seealso = (See also Homer)
 | topic = Mountains
 | page = 532
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num =
 | text = <poem>Over the hills and o'er the main, "
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,
Queen Anne commands and we'll obey,
Over the hills and far away.
The Merry Companion. Song 173. P. 149.
 | seealso = (See also Gay)
 | topic = Mountains
 | page = 532
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num =
 | text = Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
 | author = Pope
 | work = Essay on Criticism.
 | place = Pt. II. L. 32.
 | topic = Mountains
 | page = 532
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num =
 | text = I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.
 | author = Rabelais
 | work = Works.
 | place = Bk. IV. Ch. XXXVIII.
 | seealso = (See also Homer)
 | topic = Mountains
 | page = 532
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num =
 | text = <poem>Mountains are the beginning and the end of
all natural scenery.
Ruskin—True and Beautiful. Nature. Mountains. P. 91.