John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Mathew Henry. (1662–1714) (continued) |
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| So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar. 1 |
| Commentaries. Job iii. |
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| To their own second thoughts. 2 |
| Commentaries. Job vi. |
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| He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. |
| Commentaries. Psalm xxxvi. |
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| Our creature comforts. |
| Commentaries. Psalm xxxvii. |
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| None so deaf as those that will not hear. 3 |
| Commentaries. Psalm lviii. |
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| They that die by famine die by inches. |
| Commentaries. Psalm lix. |
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| To fish in troubled waters. |
| Commentaries. Psalm lx. |
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| Here is bread, which strengthens man’s heart, and therefore called the staff of life. 4 |
| Commentaries. Psalm civ. |
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| Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves. |
| Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii. |
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| It was a common saying among the Puritans, “Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.” |
| Commentaries. Isaiah xxx. |
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| Blushing is the colour of virtue. 5 |
| Commentaries. Jeremiah iii. |
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| It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. 6 |
| Commentaries. Jeremiah vii. |
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| None so blind as those that will not see. 7 |
| Commentaries. Jeremiah xx. |
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| Not lost, but gone before. 8 |
| Commentaries. Matthew ii. |
| Note 1. Nature says best; and she says, Roar!—Edgeworth: Ormond, chap. v. (King Corny in a paroxysm of gout.) [back] |
| Note 2. I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober second thought of the people shall be law.—Fisher Ames: On Biennial Elections, 1788. [back] |
| Note 3. See Heywood, Quotation 123. [back] |
| Note 4. Bread is the staff of life.—Jonathan Swift: Tale of a Tub. Corne, which is the staffe of life.—Winslow: Good Newes from New England, p. 47. (London, 1624.) The stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread.—Isaiah iii. 1. [back] |
| Note 5. Diogenes once saw a youth blushing, and said: “Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.”—Diogenes Laertius: Diogenes, vi. [back] |
| Note 6. See Heywood, Quotation 40. [back] |
| Note 7. There is none so blind as they that won’t see.—Jonathan Swift: Polite Conversation, dialogue iii. [back] |
| Note 8. Literally from Seneca, Epistola lxiii. 16. Not dead, but gone before.—Samuel Rogers: Human Life. [back] |