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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.


New Testament James, Chapter 1, Verse 12:

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SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allo...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lus...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay, And for his false o...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) There is nothing new under the sun.
ECCLESIASTES 1:9 For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges, And dullest nonse...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winter's past or coming void of care, Well p...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.
GEORGE COOPER (1) And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Unconscious humor.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged, As wise philosop...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over Whate'er the crabb...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.
JOHN BROWN (1) Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those, I might suspect, and take...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) This hairy meteor did announce The fall of sceptres and of crowns.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A grisly meteor on his face.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) With vollies of eternal babble.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) You have a wrong sow by the ear.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He that will win his dame must do As love does when he draws his bow; With one hand thrust the...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon; And what men say of her they mean ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it, As being loth to wear it out,...
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