Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Righteousness

Be not righteous overmuch.
Ecclesiastes. VII. 16.

Every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Hebrews. V. 13.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Proverbs. XII. 10.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Proverbs. XIV. 34.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Psalms. XXXVII. 25.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms. XCII. 12.