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Judges 9
Judges 9:11
A tallow dip, of the long-eight description, is an excellent thing in the kitchen candlestick, and Betty's nose and eye are not sensitive to the difference between it and the finest wax; it is only when you stick it in the silver candlestick, and introduce it into the drawing-room, that it seems plebeian, dim, and ineffectual. Alas for the worthy man who, like that candle, gets himself into the wrong place!
—George Eliot, Amos Barton.
Does he not drink more sweetly that takes his beverage in an earthen vessel, than he who looks and searches into his golden chalices, for fear of poison, and looks pale at every sudden noise, and sleeps in armour, and trusts no body, and does not trust God for his safety?
—Jeremy Taylor.
Verily, I swear "tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perk"d up in a glistering grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.
Anne Bullen in King Henry VIII.
Reference.—IX:14 , 15.—C. F. Aked, The Courage of the Coward, p205.
Judges 9:17-18
As I Judges 9:53
There now lies the greatness of Abimelech!—upon one stone had he slain his seventy brethren, and now a stone slays him.
—Bishop Hall.
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