I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Stevenson—Inland Voyage.
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| num = 2 | text = Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.
A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them. Suetonius. Attributed by him to Tiberius Cesar—Life. 32.
| seealso = (See also Pope Pius II)
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| num = 3 | text = The itch of disputation will break out
Into a scab of error. Rowland Watktns—The new Illiterate late Teachers.
| seealso = (See also Wotton)
See the Gospel Church secure,
And founded on a Rock! All her promises are sure; Her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine; Tell, to after-ages tell, Fortified by power divine, The Church can never fail. Charles Wesley—Scriptural. Psalm XLVIII St. 9.
Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies.
The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
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CIRCLES
Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
Sir Thomas Browne—Hydriotaphia. Ch. V.
A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.
Isaac DTsraeli—Miscellanies.
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which
it forms is the second; and throughout nature
this primary figure is repeated without end. It
is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.
Emerson—Essays. Circles.
As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake;
The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds,
Another still, and still another spreads.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. IV. L. 364.
As on the smooth expanse of crystal lakes
The sinking stone at first a circle makes;
The trembling surface by the motion sthr'd,
Spreads in a second circle, then a third;
Wide, and more wide, the floating rings advance,
Fill all the watery plain, and to the margin dance.
I'm up and down and round about,
Yet all the world can't find me out;
Though hundreds have employed their leisure,
They never yet could find my measure.
Swift—On a Circle.
I watch'd the little circles die;
They past into the level flood.
| author = Tennyson
| work = The Miller's Daughter. St. 10.
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With flawless demonstration.
| author = Tennyson
| work = The Princess. II. L. 349.
Circles are praised, not that abound
In largeness, but the exactly round.
Edmund Waller—Long and Short Life.
CIRCUMSTANCE
The massive gates of circumstance
Are turned upon the smallest hinge,
And thus some seeming pettiest chance
Oft gives our life its after-tinge.
The trifles of our daily lives,
The common things, scarce worth recall,
Whereof no visible trace survives,
These are the mainsprings after all.
Anon. In Harper's Weekly, May 30, 1863.
Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame
of the world not to the power of God, but to the
fortuitous concourse of atoms.
Bentley—Sermons. II. Preached in 1692.
See also Review of Snt Robert Peel's
Address. Attributed later to Sir John
Russell. See Choker—Papers. Vol. II.
P. 56.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Cicero, Goldsmith, Paimerstone,
Scott, Webster)
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And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,
Whose touch turns hope to dust—the dust we
all have trod.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 125.
Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men.
Byron—Don Juan. Canto V. St. 17.
| seealso = (See also Disraeli)
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| num =
| text = <poem>I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse—borne away with every breath.
| author = Byron
| work = Sardanapalus. Act IV. Sc. 1.
Odd instances of strange coincidence.
Queen Caroline's Advocate in the House
of Lords, referring to her association with
Berg ami.
The long arm of coincidence.
Haddon Chambers—Captain Swift.
{{Hoyt quote
| num = | text = <poem>Nulla cogente natura, sed concursu quodam
fortuito. Cicero—De Nat. Deorum.
| place = Bk. I. 24. Adapted by him to:
Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum. By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. Same in QunmLiAN. 7. 2. 2.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Bentley)
