John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Old Testament. (continued) |
10116 |
Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. |
Joel ii. 28. |
10117 |
Multitudes in the valley of decision. |
Joel iii. 14. |
10118 |
They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree. |
Micah iv. 4. |
10119 |
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. |
Habakkuk ii. 2. |
10120 |
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? |
Zechariah i. 5. |
10121 |
For who hath despised the day of small things? |
Zechariah iv. 10. |
10122 |
Prisoners of hope. |
Zechariah ix. 12. |
10123 |
I was wounded in the house of my friends. |
Zechariah xiii. 6. |
10124 |
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. |
Malachi iv. 2. |
10125 |
Great is truth, and mighty above all things. 1 |
1 Esdras iv. 41. |
10126 |
Unto you is paradise opened. |
2 Esdras viii. 52. |
10127 |
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. |
2 Esdras xiv. 25. |
10128 |
So they [Azarias and Tobias] went forth both, and the young man’s dog went with them. |
Tobit v. 16. |
10129 |
So they went their way, and the dog went after them. |
Tobit xi. 4. |
10130 |
Our time is a very shadow that passeth away. |
Wisdom of Solomon ii. 5. |
10131 |
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered. |
Wisdom of Solomon ii. 8. |
10132 |
Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age. |
Wisdom of Solomon iv. 8. |
Note 1. Magna est veritas et prævalet.—The Vulgate. Usually quoted “Magna est veritas et prævalebit.” [back] |