Indexed in the public record
“Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6b8692970db97a69202b34067f28908ef3a99311645475d4377f701e61c6f3e1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of…”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will…”
Henry W. Longfellow
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil…”
Edward Everett
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.”
Lord Byron
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger…”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is…”
Sir John Denham
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.