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

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George A. Stevens (1720-1784): The Storm.

That man may last, but never lives,

Who much receives, but nothing gives;

Whom none can love, whom none can thank,—

Creation's blot, creation's blank.

Thomas Gibbons (1720-1785): When Jesus dwelt.

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In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested.

Richard Hurd (1720-1808): Sermons. Vol. ii. p. 287.

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.