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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]