Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. Bible.

The blind man bears the lame, and onward hies, / Made right by lending feet and borrowing eyes. Plato the Younger.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Carlyle.

The blood more stirs / To rouse a lion than to 40 start a hare. Hen. IV., i. 3.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity, the rest is crime. Burke.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. Tertullian.

The blue-bird carries the sky on his back. Thoreau.

The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. Mrs. Browning.

The blush is Nature's alarm at the approach of 45 sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue. Fuller.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. Bovee.