In the Bible or Not?

Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Criticism" (1711)

"Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of your eye" (Proverbs 7:2).

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"My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth" (Job 19:20).

Jonathan Swift's "A Tale of a Tub" (1704)

Thomas Tusser's Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1573)

"Dead flies putrefy the perfumer's ointment, and cause it to give off a foul odor; so does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor" (Ecclesiastes 10:1).

William Shakespeare's "King Henry IV" (1597)

Thomas H. Palmer's "Teacher's Manual" (1782-1861) and Frederick Maryat's "The Children of the New Forest" (1792-1848)

"Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant" (Proverbs 9:17).

Chaucer's "Tale of Melibee" (1386)

Edward FitzGerald's "Solomon's Seal" (1852)

"They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; it shall never produce meal. If it should produce, aliens would swallow it up" (Hosea 8:7).

"It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones" (Luke 17:2).

John Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)

"Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy" (Psalm 126:5).

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men" (Matthew 5:13).

Very loosely based on John 17:14-16

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"A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it" (Luke 8:5).