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... half recompensed . A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow . A crowd is not company . A danger foreseen is half avoided . A day to come shows longer than a year that's gone . A deluge of words and a drop of sense . A detracter is his ...
... half recompensed . A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow . A crowd is not company . A danger foreseen is half avoided . A day to come shows longer than a year that's gone . A deluge of words and a drop of sense . A detracter is his ...
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... half a crown . Better give the wool than the whole sheep . Better go back than lose yourself . Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt . Better half a loaf than no bread . Better hazard once than be always in fear . Better known ...
... half a crown . Better give the wool than the whole sheep . Better go back than lose yourself . Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt . Better half a loaf than no bread . Better hazard once than be always in fear . Better known ...
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... half amends . Confidence goeth farther in company than good sense . Conscience can't be compelled . Consideration is the parent of wisdom . Constant complaints never get pity . Content is happiness . Content is more than a kingdom ...
... half amends . Confidence goeth farther in company than good sense . Conscience can't be compelled . Consideration is the parent of wisdom . Constant complaints never get pity . Content is happiness . Content is more than a kingdom ...
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... Half a loaf is better than no bread . Half an acre is good land . Hang not all 26 PROVERBS .
... Half a loaf is better than no bread . Half an acre is good land . Hang not all 26 PROVERBS .
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William Tegg. Half an acre is good land . Hang not all your bells upon one horse . Happy is he that is happy in his children . Happy is he , whose friends were born before him . Happy is the man who sees his faults in his youth . Happy ...
William Tegg. Half an acre is good land . Hang not all your bells upon one horse . Happy is he that is happy in his children . Happy is he , whose friends were born before him . Happy is the man who sees his faults in his youth . Happy ...
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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.