John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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George Herbert. (15931633) |
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1 | To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise. |
Praise. |
2 | Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky. |
Virtue. |
3 | Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie. |
Virtue. |
4 | Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives. |
Virtue. |
5 | Like summer friends, Flies of estate and sunneshine. |
The Answer. |
6 | A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th action fine. |
The Elixir. |
7 | A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. |
The Church Porch. |
8 | Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. 1 |
The Church Porch. |
9 | Chase brave employment with a naked sword Throughout the world. |
The Church Porch. |
10 | Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, T is angels music. |
The Church Porch. |
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11 | The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence. |
The Church Porch. |
12 | Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. |
Sin. |
13 | Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. |
The Church Militant. |
14 | Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. |
Man. |
15 | If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. |
The Pulley. |
16 | The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords. |
A True Hymn. |
17 | Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? 2 |
The Size. |
18 | Do well and right, and let the world sink. 3 |
Country Parson. Chap. xxix. |
19 | His bark is worse than his bite. |
Jacula Prudentum. |
20 | After death the doctor. 4 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
21 | Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. 5 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
22 | No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by. 6 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
23 | Gods mill grinds slow, but sure. 7 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
24 | The offender never pardons. 8 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
25 | It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle. |
Jacula Prudentum. |
26 | To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure. 9 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
27 | The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. 10 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
28 | Help thyself, and God will help thee. 11 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
29 | Words are women, deeds are men. 12 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
30 | The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken. 13 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
31 | A dwarf on a giants shoulders sees farther of the two. 14 |
Jacula Prudentum. |
| Note 1. And he that does one fault at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two. Isaac Watts: Song xv. [back] | Note 2. See Heywood, Quotation 129. Isaac Bickerstaff: Thomas and Sally. [back] | Note 3. Ruat clum, fiat voluntas tua (Though the sky fall, let Thy will be done).Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici, part ii. sect. xi. [back] | Note 4. After the war, aid.Greek proverb.
After me the deluge.Madame de Pompadour. [back] | Note 5. Hell is paved with good intentions.Dr. Samuel Johnson (Boswells Life of Johnson, Annus 1775). [back] | Note 6. See Burton, Quotation 80. [back] | Note 7. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.Friedrich Von Logau (16141655): Retribution (translation). [back] | Note 8. They neer pardon who have done the wrong.John Dryden: The Conquest of Grenada. [back] | Note 9. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.Laurence Sterne: Sentimental Journey. [back] | Note 10. The lion is not so fierce as painted.Thomas Fuller: Expecting Preferment. [back] | Note 11. God helps those who help themselves.Sidney. Discourses on Government, sect. xxiii. Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richards Almanac. [back] | Note 12. Words are mens daughters, but Gods sons are things.Dr. Madden: Boulters Monument (supposed to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745). [back] | Note 13. See Chaucer, Quotation 30. [back] | Note 14. See Burton, Quotation 5. [back] |
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