Scripture: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole.— FRIEDRICH SCHOEDLER — Treasury of
Science. Astronomy. Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason. STANISLAUS (King of Poland)-Maxims. No.
His studie was but litel on the Bible.— CHAUCER — Canterbury Tales.
Prologue. L. 4. A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.— COWPER — Olney Hymns. No. 30.
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.— DRYDEN — Religio Laici. L. 297.
Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.— EMERSON — The Problem.
The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.— EMERSON — The Problem. St. 6.
S. It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."— MATHEW HENRY — Commentaries.
Isaiah XXX. Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.— MATHEW HENRY — Of Solomon's Song.
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.— HERBERT — The Church. Sin.
Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.— HERBERT — The Church. The Holy Scriptures. Pt. IL
Most wondrous book: bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star By which the bark of man could navigate The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss Securely.— POLLOK — Course of Time. Bk. II. L. 270.
Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. SCOTT Monastery. Ch. XII. Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns. Ere sunset all is snow.— LOWELL — To —.
Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move.— D. M. MULOCK — Immutable.
Spring. For one swallow does not make spring, nor yet one fine day.— ARISTOTLE — Ethics. I. 6.
Fair Spring! whose simplest promise more delights Than all their largest wealth, and through the heart Each joy and new-born hope With softest influence breathes.— ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD — Ode to Spring. St. 13.
But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn! Oh, when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?— BEATTIE — The Hermit.
Fled now the sullen murmurs of the North, The splendid raiment of the Spring peeps forth. His universal green and the clear sky Delight still more and more the gazing eye.— BLOOMFIELD — The Farmer's Boy. Spring. St. 4.
SEASONS (THE)-SPRING. 539 But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.— WATTS — The Excellency of the Bible.
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book of God had seen.— WATTS — Praise for the Gospel.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.— DANIEL WEBSTER — Completion of
Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843.