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

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Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Jeremiah vi. 14; viii. 11.

Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.[835:1]

Jeremiah vi. 16.

Amend your ways and your doings.

Jeremiah vii. 3; xxvi. 13.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?

Jeremiah viii. 22.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!

Jeremiah ix. 2.