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“Oh! no! we never mention her,
Her name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak
That once familiar word.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly,”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes Source: Melodies of Various Nations--Oh! No! We Never Mention Her
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“A good name is better than precious ointment.”
Bible Quotes Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. VII, v. 1)
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“There be of them that have left a name behind them.”
Bible Quotes Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XLIV, v. 8)
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“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow
up as calves of the stall.”
Bible Quotes Source: Malachi (ch. IV, v. 2)
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“And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My
name is Legion: for we are many.”
Bible Quotes Source: Mark (ch. V, v. 9)
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“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving
favour rather than silver and gold.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 1)
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“I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat
a cat, and Rollet a rogue.
[Fr., Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom;
J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes Source: Satires (I, 51)
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“Call a spade a spade.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritis Junior to the Reader (p. 11)
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“He left a Corsair's name to other times,
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Corsair (canto III, st. 24)
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“I have a passion for the name of "Mary,"
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,
Where I beheld what never was to be.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 4)
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“On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 399)
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“Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 5)
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“Ah! replied my gentle fair,
Beloved, what are names but air?
Choose thou, whatever suits the line:
Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,
Call me Lalage, or Doris,
Only, only, call me thine.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: What's in a Name
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“Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 101)
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“Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: Oliver Twist (ch. 8)
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“The dodgerest of all the dodgers.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: Our Mutual Friend (ch. XIII)
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“"Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the
gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know.
"Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to
find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really
thought that it was I.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. 2)
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“Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. 22)
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“He lives who dies to win a lasting name.”
William Drummond (1) Quotes Source: Sonnet (XII)
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“Above any Greek or Roman name.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (l. 76)
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“We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff.
[Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]”
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus Quotes Source: Colloquy--Philetymus et Pseudocheus
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“The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot,
And when fate writ my name it made a blot.”
Henry Fielding Quotes Source: Amelia (II, 9)
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“I cannot say the crow is white,
But needs must call a spade a spade.”
Humphrey Gifford Quotes Source: A Woman's Face is Full of Wiles
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“"Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter
Among the immortals when that word was brought!
Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after,
High toward the topmost heaven of heavens up-caught!
"All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare said,
And Dante nodded his imperial head.”
Richard Watson Gilder Quotes Source: Keats
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“My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.”
Richard Watson Gilder Quotes Source: Keats
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