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None so deaf as those that will not hear.
There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry (1830)
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.
They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.
It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."
Blushing is the colour of virtue.
They that die by famine die by inches.
Their own second and sober thoughts.
Exposition. Job VI. 29; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
The better day, the worse deed.
Those that are above business.
Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.
A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song (1835)
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.
Saying and doing are two things.
That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.
Judas had given them the slip.
To their own second thoughts.
To fish in troubled waters.
After a storm comes a calm.