John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Old Testament. (continued) |
| 10098 |
| We all do fade as a leaf. |
| Isaiah lxiv. 6. |
| 10099 |
| Peace, peace; when there is no peace. |
| Jeremiah vi. 14; viii. 11. |
| 10100 |
| Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein. 1 |
| Jeremiah vi. 16. |
| 10101 |
| Amend your ways and your doings. |
| Jeremiah vii. 3; xxvi. 13. |
| 10102 |
| Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? |
| Jeremiah viii. 22. |
| 10103 |
| Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men! |
| Jeremiah ix. 2. |
| 10104 |
| Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? |
| Jeremiah xiii. 23. |
| 10105 |
| A man of strife and a man of contention. |
| Jeremiah xv. 10. |
| 10106 |
| Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. |
| Jeremiah xvii. 1. |
| 10107 |
| He shall be buried with the burial of an ass. |
| Jeremiah xxii. 19. |
| 10108 |
| As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. |
| Ezekiel x. 10. |
| 10109 |
| The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. |
| Ezekiel xviii. 2; (Jeremiah xxxi. 29.) |
| 10110 |
| Stood at the parting of the way. |
| Ezekiel xxi. 21. |
| 10111 |
| Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. |
| Daniel v. 27. |
| 10112 |
| According to the law of the Medes and Persians. |
| Daniel vi. 12. |
| 10113 |
| Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. |
| Daniel xii. 4. |
| 10114 |
| They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. |
| Hosea viii. 7. |
| 10115 |
| I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes. |
| Hosea viii. 10. |
| Note 1. stare super vias antiquas.—The Vulgate. [back] |