Religion. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Religion


Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired. Cowper.—Expostulation, Line 492.	1
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumber’d pleasures, harmlessly pursued. Cowper.—Retirement, Line 783.	2
Religion crowns the statesman and the man, Sole source of public and of private peace. Dr. Young.—On the public Situation of the Kingdom, Line 499.	3
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system. Guthrie.—The Gospel in Ezekiel, Chap. xv., Page 295.	4
The dispute about religion, And the practice of it, seldom go together. Dr. Young.—Pref. to Night VI. Line 1.	5
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. Sheridan.—The Duenna, Act III. Scene 3.	6
A fellow that makes religion his stalking-horse. Marston.—The Malecontent, Act IV. Scene 3.	7
Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares morality expires. Pope.—The Dunciad, Book IV., Line 649.	8
He dropped his religion and took up no other in its stead. Swift.—Four Last Years of Queen Anne. (On the Earl of Wharton.)	9