
The Crystal Cabinet, st. 2
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)
The Choice
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
The Crystal Cabinet, st. 2
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)
“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
Christian Moderation, introduction.
Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Song lyrics, Children of the Sun (1969)
“Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.”
Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
Quoted in Shirali, Aresh (10 August 2017). "The Enigma of Aligarh" https://openthemagazine.com/freedom-issue-2017/freedom-issue-2017-dispatches-from-history/the-enigma-of-aligarh/. Open Magazine.
Variant: "India is like a bride which has got two beautiful and lustrous eyes—Hindus and Mussulmans. If they quarrel against each other that beautiful bride will become ugly and if one destroys the other, she will lose one eye." Writings and Speeches of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan https://books.google.com/books?id=ausHAAAAMAAJ, p. 160.