Familiar Quotations | Page 3

laboring man is sweet.

Ecclesiastes vii. 2.
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of
feasting.
Ecclesiastes vii. 16.
Be not righteous overmuch
Ecclesiastes ix. 4.
For a living dog is better than a dead lion,
Ecclesiastes ix. 10.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
Ecclesiastes ix. 11.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Ecclesiastes xi. 1.
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Ecclesiastes xii. 1.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
Ecclesiastes xii. 5.
And the grasshopper shall be a burden.
Ecclesiastes xii. 5.
Man goeth to his long home.
Ecclesiastes xii. 6.
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the

pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Ecclesiastes xii. 7.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall
return unto God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes xii. 8.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes xii. 12.
Of making many 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.