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"Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body."
Life of Monica.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it."
Life of the Duke of Alva.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him."
Holy and Profane State. The Good Wife.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows."
Holy and Profane State. The Good Husband.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience."
Holy and Profane State. The Good Advocate.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion."
Holy and Profane State. The True Church Antiquary.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But our captain counts the image of God--nevertheless his image--cut in ebony as if done in ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the representation of the King of Heaven."
Holy and Profane State. The Good Sea-Captain.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul."
Holy and Profane State. The Virtuous Lady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The lion is not so fierce as painted."
Holy and Profane State. Of Preferment.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room."
Holy and Profane State. Of Natural Fools.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders."
Holy and Profane State. Of Tombs.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
Holy and Profane State. Of Books.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter."
Holy and Profane State. Of Marriage.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing."
Holy and Profane State. Fame.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high."
Andronicus. Sect. vi. Par. 18, 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain