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None so blind as those that will not see.
Topic: Blindness
Source: Commentaries (Jeremiah, XX)
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Blushing is the colour of virtue.
Topic: Blushes
Source: Commentaries (Jeremiah, III)
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It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast
themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Topic: Churches
Source: Commentaries (Jeremiah, VII)
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The better day, the worse deed.
Topic: Day
Source: Commentaries (Genesis, III)
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Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is
called the staff of Life.
Topic: Eating
Source: Commentaries (Psalm CIV)
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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Topic: Eating
Source: Commentaries (Psalm XXXI)
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I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
[Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]
Topic: Eating
Source: Commentaries (Psalm XXXI)
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To fish in troubled waters.
Topic: Fishing
Source: Commentaries (Psalm LX)
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None so deaf as those who will not hear.
Topic: Hearing
Source: Commentaries (Psalm LVIII)
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They that die by famine die by inches.
Topic: Hunger
Source: Commentaries (Psalm LIX)
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It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good
to be true.
Topic: News
Source: Commentaries (I Timothy, I, 15)
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So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did
not only sigh but roar.
Topic: Pain
Source: Commentaries (Job III, V, 24)
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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.
Topic: Public Trust
Source: Commentaries
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It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the
Gospel is good fare."
Topic: Scripture
Source: Commentaries
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Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant
would drown.
Topic: Scripture
Source: Of Solomon's Song
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Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that
are but skin-deep.
Topic: Temptation
Source: Commentaries (Genesis, III)
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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Topic: Tongue
Source: Commentaries (Psalm XXXI)
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Judas had given them the slip.
Topic: Treachery
Source: Commentaries (Matthew, XXII)
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