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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Laurence Sterne. (1713–1768) (continued)
 
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    The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven’s chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. 1
          Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. vi. Chap. viii.
4131
    I am sick as a horse.
          Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. vii. Chap. xi.
4132
    “They order,” said I, “this matter better in France.”
          Sentimental Journey. Page 1.
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    I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, “’T is all barren!”
          In the Street. Calais.
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    God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. 2
          Maria.
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    “Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery,” said I, “still thou art a bitter draught.”
          The Passport. The Hotel at Paris.
4136
    The sad vicissitude of things. 3
          Sermon xvi.
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    Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
          Sermon xxvii.
 
William Shenstone. (1714–1763)
 
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    Whoe’er has travell’d life’s dull round,
  Where’er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
  The warmest welcome at an inn. 4
          Written on a Window of an Inn.
 
Note 1.
But sad as angels for the good man’s sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.
Thomas Campbell: Pleasures of Hope, part ii. line 357. [back]
Note 2.
Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue (God measures the cold to the shorn lamb).—Henri Estienne (1594): Prémices, etc. p. 47.

See Herbert, Quotation 26. [back]
Note 3.
Resolves the sad vicissitudes of things.—R. Gifford: Contemplation. [back]
Note 4.
See Johnson, Quotation 26.

Archbishop Leighton often said that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn.—Works, vol. i. p. 76. [back]