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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Certainly tins is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness." John Wesley—Sermon XCII. On Dress. Quoted by Rowland Hill as a saying of Whitefield's. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Talmud) CLOUDS Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Pard, or a Wolf, or a Bull? Aristophanes—Clouds. Gerard's trans. (Compare Hamlet. III. 2) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And ghtt'ring cliffs on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise. Beattie—Minstrel. | place = Bk. I. I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one. John G. C. Brainard—I Saw Two Clouds at Morning. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 122 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where. Robert Brjdgbb^—Elegy. The Cliff Top. A Claud. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 122 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please, Or let the easily persuaded eyes Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould Of a friend's fancy. Coleridge—Fancy in Nubibus. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 122 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our fathers were under the cloud. / Corinthians. X. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 122 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud Is bright and shining: I therefore turn my clouds about And always wear them inside out To show the lining. | trans = Ellen Thorneycropt Fowler | cog = (Mrs. A. L. Felton) | work = Wisdom of Folly. | topic = | page = 122 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The clouds,—the only birds that never sleep. Victor Hugo—The Vanished City. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 122 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. I Kings. XVIII. 44. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 122 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks! | author = Longfellow | work = Ckristus. The Golden Legend. Pt.V. L. 145. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 122 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven. | author = Longfellow | work = Michael Angela. Pt. II. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 122 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water. E. L. Masters—Spoon River Anthology. Isaiah Beethoven. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 122 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? | author = Milton | work = Comus. L. 22. There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. | author = Milton | work = Comus. L. 223. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 122 }} 