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... tongue ; and yet money must carry it . A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm . A good conscience is the best divinity . A good day will not mend him , nor a bad day impair him . A good dog deserves a good bone . A good ...
... tongue ; and yet money must carry it . A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm . A good conscience is the best divinity . A good day will not mend him , nor a bad day impair him . A good dog deserves a good bone . A good ...
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... tongue in it is worth double the price . A hog in armour is still but a hog . A hog upon trust , grunts till he's paid for . A hook's well lost to catch a salmon . A horse is neither better nor worse for his trapping . A house ready ...
... tongue in it is worth double the price . A hog in armour is still but a hog . A hog upon trust , grunts till he's paid for . A hook's well lost to catch a salmon . A horse is neither better nor worse for his trapping . A house ready ...
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... tongue perhaps never . A small leak will sink a 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 ...
... tongue perhaps never . A small leak will sink a 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 ...
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... tongue . Better thou perish than truth . Better two losses than one 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 ...
... tongue . Better thou perish than truth . Better two losses than one 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 ...
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... tongues . Birth is much , but breeding is more . Black plums may eat as sweet as white . Black will take no other hue . Blessed is the peace - maker , not the conqueror . Blessings are not valued till they are gone . Blow thy own ...
... tongues . Birth is much , but breeding is more . Black plums may eat as sweet as white . Black will take no other hue . Blessed is the peace - maker , not the conqueror . Blessings are not valued till they are gone . Blow thy own ...
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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.