Familiar Quotations | Page 3

books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Isaiah xi. 6.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.
Isaiah xxviii. 10.
Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little.
Isaiah xxxviii. 1.
Set thine house in order.
Isaiah xl. 6.
All flesh is grass.
Isaiah xl. 15.
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.
Isaiah xlii. 3.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
Isaiah liii. 7.
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
Isaiah lx. 22.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
Isaiah lxi. 3.
To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
Isaiah lxiv. 6.
We all do fade as a leaf.
Jeremiah vii. 3.
Amend your ways and your doings.
Jeremiah viii. 22.
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there?
Jeremiah xiii. 23.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Ezekiel xviii. 2.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Daniel v. 27.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Daniel vi. 12.
The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Hosea viii. 7.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
Micah iv. 3.
And they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks.
Micah iv. 4.
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree.
Habakkuk ii. 2.
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
Malachi iv. 2.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.
Ecelesiasticus xiii. 1.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Ecelesiasticus xiii. 7.
He will laugh thee to scorn.
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COMMON PRAYER.
Morning Prayer.
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Psalm cv. 18.
The iron entered into his soul. Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent. Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
The Burial Service.
In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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NEW TESTAMENT.
Matthew ii. 18.
Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Matthew iv. 4.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
Matthew v. 13.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?
Matthew v. 14.
Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid.
Matthew vi. 3.
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Matthew vi. 21.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew vi. 24.
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
Matthew vi. 28.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
Matthew vi. 34.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew vii. 6.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
Matthew vii. 7.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Matthew viii. 20.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
Matthew ix. 37.
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
Matthew x. 16.
Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew x. 30.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew xii. 33.
The tree is known by his fruit.
Matthew xii. 34.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew xiii. 57.
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.
Matthew xiv. 27.
Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
Matthew xv. 14.
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Matthew xv. 27.
Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Matthew xvi. 23.
Get thee behind me, Satan.
Matthew xvi. 26.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Matthew xvii. 4.
It is good for us to be here.
Matthew xix. 6.
What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder.
Matthew xix. 24.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Matthew xx. 15.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
Matthew xxii. 14.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Matthew xxiii. 24.
Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat,