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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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John Bunyan. (1628–1688) (continued)
 
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    The palace Beautiful.
          Pilgrim’s Progress. Part i.
2913
    They came to the Delectable Mountains.
          Pilgrim’s Progress. Part i.
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    Some things are of that nature as to make
One’s fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
          The Author’s Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim.
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    He that is down needs fear no fall. 1
          Pilgrim’s Progress. Part ii.
 
Sir William Temple. (1628–1699)
 
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    Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.
          Ancient and Modern Learning.
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    No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672.
          Memoirs. Vol. ii. p. 255.
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    When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
          Miscellanea. Part ii. Of Poetry.
 
John Tillotson. (1630–1694)
 
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    If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men. 2
 
William Stoughton. (1631–1701)
 
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    God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. 3
          Election Sermon at Boston, April 29, 1669.
 
Note 1.
See Butler, Quotation 36. [back]
Note 2.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.—Francis M. Voltaire: A l’Auteur du Livre des trois Imposteurs, épître cxl. [back]
Note 3.
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.—Henry W. Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish, iv. [back]