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Page 13
... sorrow . Better untaught than ill taught . Bear with evil , and expect good . Beauty draws more than oxen . Beauty in women is like the flowers in Spring ; but virtue is like the stars of heaven . Bees that have honey in their mouths ...
... sorrow . Better untaught than ill taught . Bear with evil , and expect good . Beauty draws more than oxen . Beauty in women is like the flowers in Spring ; but virtue is like the stars of heaven . Bees that have honey in their mouths ...
Page 36
... sorrow . He that spares the bad injures the good . He that speaks , sows ; he that hears , reaps . He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill , He that stumbles , and falls not quite , gains 36 PROVERBS .
... sorrow . He that spares the bad injures the good . He that speaks , sows ; he that hears , reaps . He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill , He that stumbles , and falls not quite , gains 36 PROVERBS .
Page 43
... sorrows . If your shoe pinch you , give it your man . Ignorance is the mother of impudence . Ill doers are ill thinkers . Ill gotten goods seldom prosper . Ill got , ill spent . Ill luck is good for something . Ill news comes apace ...
... sorrows . If your shoe pinch you , give it your man . Ignorance is the mother of impudence . Ill doers are ill thinkers . Ill gotten goods seldom prosper . Ill got , ill spent . Ill luck is good for something . Ill news comes apace ...
Page 49
... sorrow . Justice needs not injury to assist it in getting its own . Keep counsel thyself first . Keep the common road and thou'rt safe . Keep your purse and your mouth close . Keep your shop , and your shop will keep you . Kindness is ...
... sorrow . Justice needs not injury to assist it in getting its own . Keep counsel thyself first . Keep the common road and thou'rt safe . Keep your purse and your mouth close . Keep your shop , and your shop will keep you . Kindness is ...
Page 60
... sorrow . One eye of the master's sees more than ten of the men's . One favour qualifies for another . One good head is better than an hundred strong hands . One good turn deserves another . One hair of a woman draws more than a team of ...
... sorrow . One eye of the master's sees more than ten of the men's . One favour qualifies for another . One good head is better than an hundred strong hands . One good turn deserves another . One hair of a woman draws more than a team of ...
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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.