John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| George Herbert. (1593–1633) (continued) |
| 2295 |
| Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. 1 |
| The Church Porch. |
| 2296 |
| Chase brave employment with a naked sword Throughout the world. |
| The Church Porch. |
| 2297 |
| Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ’T is angels’ music. |
| The Church Porch. |
| 2298 |
| The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence. |
| The Church Porch. |
| 2299 |
| Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. |
| Sin. |
| 2300 |
| Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. |
| The Church Militant. |
| 2301 |
| Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. |
| Man. |
| 2302 |
| If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. |
| The Pulley. |
| 2303 |
| The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords. |
| A True Hymn. |
| 2304 |
| Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? 2 |
| The Size. |
| 2305 |
| Do well and right, and let the world sink. 3 |
| Country Parson. Chap. xxix. |
| 2306 |
| His bark is worse than his bite. |
| Jacula Prudentum. |
| 2307 |
| After death the doctor. 4 |
| Jacula Prudentum. |
| 2308 |
| Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. 5 |
| 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 cœlum, 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 (Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Annus 1775). [back] |