John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Mathew Henry. (1662–1714) (continued) |
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| Those that are above business. |
| Commentaries. Matthew xx. |
| 3078 |
| Better late than never. 1 |
| Commentaries. Matthew xxi. |
| 3079 |
| Saying and doing are two things. |
| Commentaries. Matthew xxi. |
| 3080 |
| Judas had given them the slip. |
| Commentaries. Matthew xxii. |
| 3081 |
| After a storm comes a calm. |
| Commentaries. Acts ix. |
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| Men of polite learning and a liberal education. |
| Commentaries. Acts x. |
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| It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true. |
| Commentaries. Timothy i. |
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| It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. 2 |
| Commentaries. Timothy iii. |
| Richard Bentley. (1662–1742) |
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| It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. |
| Monk’s Life of Bentley. Page 90. |
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| “Whatever is, is not,” is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like. 3 |
| Declaration of Rights. |
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| The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms. 4 |
| Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147 (1692). |
| Note 1. See Heywood, Quotation 52. [back] |
| Note 2. See Appendix, Quotation 45. [back] |
| Note 3. See Dryden, Quotation 91. [back] |
| Note 4. That fortuitous concourse of atoms.—Review of Sir Robert Peel’s Address. Quarterly Review, vol. liii. p. 270 (1835). In this article a party was described as a fortuitous concourse of atoms,—a phrase supposed to have been used for the first time many years afterwards by Lord John Russell.—Croker Papers, vol. ii. p. 54. [back] |