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... long than dangerous . A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning . A lamb is as dear to a poor man , as an ox to the rich . A light purse makes a heavy heart . A little bird is content with a little nest . PROVERBS .
... long than dangerous . A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning . A lamb is as dear to a poor man , as an ox to the rich . A light purse makes a heavy heart . A little bird is content with a little nest . PROVERBS .
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... poor man wants some things , a covetous man all things . A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt . A promise against law or duty , is void in its own nature . A proud man hath many crosses . A quiet conscience causes a quiet sleep ...
... poor man wants some things , a covetous man all things . A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt . A promise against law or duty , is void in its own nature . A proud man hath many crosses . A quiet conscience causes a quiet sleep ...
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... poor men's riches . Children are certain cares but uncertain comforts . Children increase the cares of life , but mitigate the remem- brance of death . Choleric men are blind and mad . Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye ...
... poor men's riches . Children are certain cares but uncertain comforts . Children increase the cares of life , but mitigate the remem- brance of death . Choleric men are blind and mad . Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye ...
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... poor trade . Desert and rewards very often go not together . Desire of glory is the last garment that even wise men put off . Desire to forsake the world . Despair gives courage to a coward . Desperate cases must have desperate cures ...
... poor trade . Desert and rewards very often go not together . Desire of glory is the last garment that even wise men put off . Desire to forsake the world . Despair gives courage to a coward . Desperate cases must have desperate cures ...
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... poor man's payment . Gratitude preserves old friendship and procures new . Great and good are seldom the same man . Great braggers little doers . Great designs require great considerations . Great gain makes work easy . Great hopes make ...
... poor man's payment . Gratitude preserves old friendship and procures new . Great and good are seldom the same man . Great braggers little doers . Great designs require great considerations . Great gain makes work easy . Great hopes make ...
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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.