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... fall . A green winter makes a fat churchyard . A guilty conscience never thinketh itself safe . A giant will starve with what will surfeit a dwarf . A handful of trade is a handful of gold . A head with a good tongue in it is worth ...
... fall . A green winter makes a fat churchyard . A guilty conscience never thinketh itself safe . A giant will starve with what will surfeit a dwarf . A handful of trade is a handful of gold . A head with a good tongue in it is worth ...
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... great ship . A small shop may have a good trade . A small wound may be mortal . A smoking chimney in a great house is a good sign . A snow year , a rich year . A stumble may prevent a fall . A successful man 6 PROVERBS .
... great ship . A small shop may have a good trade . A small wound may be mortal . A smoking chimney in a great house is a good sign . A snow year , a rich year . A stumble may prevent a fall . A successful man 6 PROVERBS .
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William Tegg. A stumble may prevent a fall . A successful man loses no reputation . A sweet and innocent compliance is the cement of love . A thin bush is better than no shelter . A thin meadow is soon mowed . A thinking man is always ...
William Tegg. A stumble may prevent a fall . A successful man loses no reputation . A sweet and innocent compliance is the cement of love . A thin bush is better than no shelter . A thin meadow is soon mowed . A thinking man is always ...
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... fall than rise . Eat - well is drink - well's brother . Eaten bread is forgotten . Education begins a gentleman , conversation completes him . Emulation is lively and generous , envy base and malicious . Empty vessels give the greatest ...
... fall than rise . Eat - well is drink - well's brother . Eaten bread is forgotten . Education begins a gentleman , conversation completes him . Emulation is lively and generous , envy base and malicious . Empty vessels give the greatest ...
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... falls . Hatred is blind as well as love . Have not thy cloak to make , when it begins to rain . He a soldier , and knows not onion - seed from gunpowder . He bears misery best that hides it most . He bears poverty very ill who is ...
... falls . Hatred is blind as well as love . Have not thy cloak to make , when it begins to rain . He a soldier , and knows not onion - seed from gunpowder . He bears misery best that hides it most . He bears poverty very ill who is ...
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bear betimes better bird blows break brings broth butter Candlemas-day catch coal of fire cold comes conscience corn counsel danger death deceived doth drink enemy envy evil eyes fair fall faults fears feast feather fire fish folly fool fool's fortune give goes goeth gold goose greatest groat hand happy hare hath heart hold honest horse idle injury ISAAC D'ISRAELI keep knave live longest day loseth maketh man's mastiffs merry mouth never one's oxen passion patience penny philosopher's stone Plain dealing pleasure poor porridge praise Pride PROVERBS purse repentance rich sauce seldom sell shame shilling shoe soon sorrow speak thee things thou tongue trust Truth Twill vice vinegar virtue wealth wife wind wine wisdom wise words worse worth
Popular passages
Page 106 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Page 24 - For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Page 57 - No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Page 41 - I with a new one : it is so well worth taking a journey for, that if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Page 45 - Else there is nothing that can comfort you: but if you have served God in a holy life, send away the women and the weepers; tell them it is as much intemperance to weep .too much as to laugh too much...
Page 121 - Tell me with whom thou goest, and I'll tell thee what thou doest.
Page 122 - If the twenty-fourth of August be fair and clear, Then hope for a prosperous autumn that year.
Page 17 - CUSTOM is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools.
Page 119 - When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever.
Page 3 - A good cause and a good tongue, yet money must carry it. A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm.