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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,— What are you when the moon shall rise? Sir Henry Wotton—On His Mistress, Die Queen of Bohemia. ("Sun" in some editions.) | author = | work = | place = | note = | seealso = (See also {{sc|Horace) | topic = | page = 752 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hence Heaven looks down on earth with all her eyes. Young—Night Thoughts. Night VII. L. 1,103. One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine; And light us deep into the Deity; How boundless in magnificence and might. Young—Night Thoughts. Night IX. L. 728. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 752 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who rounded in his palm these spacious orbs Numerous as gliterring gems of morning dew, Or sparks from populous cities in a blaze, And set the bosom of old night on fire. Young—Night Thoughts. Night LX. L. 1,260. STATESMANSHIP It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet. Bulwer-Lytton—Richelieu' Act I. Sc. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 752 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Burke—Reflections on the Revolution in France. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 752 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Learn to think imperially. Joseph Chamberlain—Speech at Guildhall. Jan. 19, 1904. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Hamilton, Lowell, Roosevelt}}) | topic = | page = 752 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains. Churchill—Night. L. 271. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 752 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing. Richard Cobden—Letter to M. Michel Chevalier. Sept., 1859. "Entente cordiale," used by Queen Victoria to Lord John Russell, Sept. 7, 1848. Littre (Diet.) dates its use to speech in The Chamber of Deputies, 1840-41. Phrase in a letter written by the Dutch Governor-General at Batavia to the BewinTkebbers (directors) at Amsterdam. Dec. 15, 1657. See Notes and Queries, Sept. 11, 1909. P. 216. Early examples given in Stanford Diet. Cobden probably first user to make the phrase popular. Quoted also by Ix>rd Aberdeen. Phrase appeared in the Foreign Quarterly Review. Oct., 1844. Used by Louis Philippe in a speech from the throne, Jan., 1843, to express friendly relations between France and England. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 752 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = La cordiale entente qui existe entre le gouvernement francais et celui de la GrandeBretagne. The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. Le Charivari. Jan. 6, 1844. Review of a . Speech by Guizot. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 752 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Si l'on n'a pas de meilleurs moyeD de seduction a lui offrir, l'entente cordiale nous paratt fort compromise. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 752 }}