| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Bidpai. (continued) |
| | | 8420 | | Whoever … prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain. |
| Ibid. |
| 8421 | | There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good. |
| A Religious Doctor. Fable vi. |
| 8422 | | There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician. |
| The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii. |
| 8423 | | He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. 1 |
| The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii. |
| 8424 | | Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us. |
| Choice of Friends. Chap. iv. |
| 8425 | | That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. 2 |
| The Cat and the two Birds. Chap. v. Fable iv. |
| | | Hesiod. (fl. 8th cent.? B.C.) |
| | | 8426 | | We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true. |
| The Theogony. Line 27. |
| 8427 | | On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, 3 and from his lips drop gentle words. |
| The Theogony. Line 82. |
| 8428 | | Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. 4 |
| The Theogony. Line 754. |
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