John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Bunyan. (1628–1688) (continued) |
| 2912 |
| The palace Beautiful. |
| Pilgrim’s Progress. Part i. |
| 2913 |
| They came to the Delectable Mountains. |
| Pilgrim’s Progress. Part i. |
| 2914 |
| Some things are of that nature as to make One’s fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. |
| The Author’s Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. |
| 2915 |
| He that is down needs fear no fall. 1 |
| Pilgrim’s Progress. Part ii. |
| Sir William Temple. (1628–1699) |
| 2916 |
| Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. |
| Ancient and Modern Learning. |
| 2917 |
| No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672. |
| Memoirs. Vol. ii. p. 255. |
| 2918 |
| When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. |
| Miscellanea. Part ii. Of Poetry. |
| John Tillotson. (1630–1694) |
| 2919 |
| If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men. 2 |
| William Stoughton. (1631–1701) |
| 2920 |
| God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. 3 |
| Election Sermon at Boston, April 29, 1669. |
| Note 1. See Butler, Quotation 36. [back] |
| Note 2. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.—Francis M. Voltaire: A l’Auteur du Livre des trois Imposteurs, épître cxl. [back] |
| Note 3. God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.—Henry W. Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish, iv. [back] |