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{{Hoyt quote | 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 {{sc|Pope Pius II) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | 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 {{sc|Wotton) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 4 | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies. | trans = The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches. | author = Sir Henry Wotton | work = A Panegyric to King Charles. | note = (Inscribed on his tomb.) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Watkyns}}; also {{sc|Walton}} under {{sc|Epitaphs}}) | topic = | page = 119 }}

{{Hoyt topic|Circles}} {{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 119 }}
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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one. Isaac DTsraeli—Miscellanies. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 119 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 119 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = Pope | work = Temple of Fame. | place = L. 436. | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. On the lecture slate The circle rounded}} under {{sc|female hands With flawless demonstration. | author = Tennyson | work = The Princess. II. L. 349. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 119 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 119 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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) >17 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 119 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. Byron—Don Juan. Canto V. St. 17. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Disraeli}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse—borne away with every breath. | author = Byron | work = Sardanapalus. Act IV. Sc. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 119 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Odd instances of strange coincidence. Queen Caroline's Advocate in the House of Lords, referring to her association with Berg ami. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 119 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The long arm of coincidence. Haddon Chambers—Captain Swift. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 119 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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)