“2454. If any one giveth thee excessive Praises more than can handsomely belong to thee, thou art to think of him, that he taketh thee for vain and credulous, and easy to be deceived, and effectually a Fool.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
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Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 456.

De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)

Thou art gone, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Shir Hakovod, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill

On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake. Compare: "She was good as she was fair, None—none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are: To know her was to love her, Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline, Stanza 1.