Behold the man.

The Bible · The source reads: “Ecce homo. Behold the man.” · John 19:5. The familiar King James wording; the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gives the Book of Common Prayer psalter.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

The Bible · Proverbs 25:21–22

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

The Bible · Job 5:26

There is no riches above a sound body.

The Bible · Ecclesiasticus 30:16

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Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

Marcus Garvey · The source reads: “Black men, you were once great; you will be great again. Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.” · Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (1923), ch. 4

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanac. July

Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?

Anthony Trollope · Phineas Finn (1869), ch. 47

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“Behold the man.”

“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.”

“Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.”

“There is no riches above a sound body.”

“Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?”