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Title: Pearls of Thought

Author: Maturin M. Ballou

Release Date: September 13, 2008 [EBook #26604]

Language: English

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PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

BY

MATURIN M. BALLOU,

AUTHOR OF THE "TREASURY OF THOUGHT," "HISTORY OF CUBA," "BIOGRAPHY OF
HOSEA BALLOU," ETC., ETC.

_Infinite riches in a little room._--MARLOWE.

BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1881.

COPYRIGHT, 1880,

By MATURIN M. BALLOU.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge:_ Electrotyped and Printed by H. O.
Houghton & Co.

* * * * *

To

MY WIFE,

THE PATIENT AND CHEERFUL ASSOCIATE OF MY STUDIES,

AFTER MORE THAN FORTY YEARS OF

HAPPY COMPANIONSHIP,

This Volume

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

BY

THE COMPILER.

Writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give Truth a lustre, and make Wisdom smile.

COWPER.

General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of
knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room.

LOCKE.

Out of monuments, names, wordes, proverbs, traditions, private
recordes, and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of bookes,
and the like, we doe save and recover somewhat from the deluge of
time.

BACON.

I would fain c