The sayings in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 750 proverbial sayings.
Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.
1. More vacant pulpits would more converts make.
John Dryden (1631-1700)
The Hind and the Panther, Pt III, line 182
2. ’Tis not the fight that crowns but the end.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Hesperides, 341
3.
Hard is the task of justice, where distress
Excites our mercy, yet demands redress.
Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
The Heroick Daughter (King), Act III, last lines
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