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Sabbath . He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor. {Holmes.}
Sabbath . Is there no God, then? but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of His universe, and seeing it go? {Carlyle.}
Sabbath . Night is the Sabbath of mankind, / To rest the body and the mind. {Butler.}
Sabbath . Nought can be gained by a Sabbath profaned. {Saying.}
Sabbath . Sabbath profaned, / Whate'er may be gained, / Is sure to be followed by sorrow. {Proverb.}
Sabbath . Sabbath well spent / Brings a week of content. {Proverb.}
Sabbath . Sabbath-days, quiet islands on the tossing sea of life. {S. W. Duffield.}
Sabbath . The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit. {Bacon.}
Sabbath . The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. {Jesus.}
Sabbath . The usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. {Bacon.}
 
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Carcel lamp : A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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