"Faithful are the wounds of a friend."

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"Strait is the gate and narrow is the way."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Unto you is paradise opened."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation."

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"She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness."

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"In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be."

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"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth."

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"As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country."

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"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?"

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"Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."

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"If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small."

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"They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree."

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"Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein."

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"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

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"I am a man of unclean lips."

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"Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason."

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"All flesh is grass."

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"The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt."

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"A man of strife and a man of contention."

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"The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head."

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"Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils."

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"The light of the body is the eye."

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"Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern."

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"These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times."

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"A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter."

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"Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond."

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"I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out."

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"A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike."

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"When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth."

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"Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave."

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"A feast of fat things."

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"Watchman, what of the night?"

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"Their strength is to sit still."

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"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."

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"The nations are as a drop of a bucket."

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"He will laugh thee to scorn."

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"Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay."

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"Stood at the parting of the way."

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"There is no discharge in that war."

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"So they [Azarias and Tobias] went forth both, and the young man's dog went with them."

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"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh."

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"The very hairs of your head are all numbered."

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"One event happeneth to them all."

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"But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings."

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"Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not."

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"The ancient and honorable."

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"Fasten him as a nail in a sure place."

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"Like the best wine, . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak."

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"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it."

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"There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets."

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