In the Bible or Not?

John Heywood's A Dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe tongue (1546)

United States Declaration of Independence (1776)

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

"That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

"Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days" (Ecclesiastes 11:1).

"And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire" (Matthew 3:10).

Old Scottish proverb

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

A loose reference to "Suddenly the fingers of a man's hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing" (Daniel 5:5).

Rewording of "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil" (Jeremiah 13:23).

"But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge" (Jeremiah 31:30).

John Wesley in his sermon "On Dress" (1791)

Made up

The Coverdale Bible (1535) "After pryde commeth a fall, but a lowly sprete bryngeth greate worshipe" (Proverbs 29:23). Earliest exact wording: John Gill's An Exposition of the Old Testament (1810).

Thomas Howell's New Sonnets and Pretty Pamphlets (1570)

"Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces" (Matthew 7:6).

Chaucer's "Tale of Melibee" (1386)

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

"But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 'There is no peace,' says my God, 'for the wicked' " (Isaiah 57:20).

Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883)