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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]

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