Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Commentaries. Psalm lix.

To fish in troubled waters.

Commentaries. Psalm lx.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.[283:4]

Commentaries. Psalm civ.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii.

It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."

Commentaries. Isaiah xxx.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.[283:5]