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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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Panderism : n. The employment, arts, or practices of a pander.

 
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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