Lines on and from "Bartlett's

Familiar Quotations"

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Of making many books there is no end -- / So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friend / When only one is shining in the sky.

Books cannot always please, however good; / The good is oft interred with their bones.

To be great is to be misunderstood, / The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans.

The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, / I never write as funny as I can.

Remote, unfriended, studious let me sit / And say to all the world, "This was a man!"

Go, lovely Rose that lives its little hour!

Go, little booke! and let who will be clever!

Roll on! From yonder ivy-mantled tower / The moon and I could keep this up forever.