 | John Smith - Bible - 1901 - 254 pages
...Him, let your answer be, " Here am I, send me." There is something for every one to do. Remember " A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds." For there is no truth more important to learn than this, that to admire what is right is one thing,... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Proverbs - 1902 - 269 pages
...the value of the caution that " In lavishing words one wears out ideas." An old rhyme hath it that " A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds," and a grave old writer advises us on this that " The way of God's commandments is more in doing than in... | |
 | Emma K. Gordon - Readers (Primary) - 1902
...then another, And the highest wall is made. One flake and then another, And the deepest snow is laid. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds; For when the weeds begin to grow, Then doth the garden overflow." shining dancing fairy break Children,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1903
...looked round, and found that the Ape had used the time to crack the nuts and eat them. A MAN OF WORDS. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. London bridge is broken down, Dance over my Lady Lee; London bridge is broken down, With a gay lady.... | |
 | Wilhelm Viëtor - 1904 - 294 pages
...deeds, 30 Is like a garden full of weeds; Viëtor u. Dörr, engl. Lesebuch. Unterstufe.^ 7. Aufl. 2 And when the weeds begin to grow It's like a garden...snow begins to fall, It's like a bird upon the wall ; 5 And when the bird away does fly, It's like an eagle in the sky ; And when the sky begins to roar,... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904
...* From Indian Wisdom by Hunicr Williams, It is better to Jo well than to say well. —MORAL MAXIM. A man of words, and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. The only things in which we can be said to have any property, are our actions. Our thoughts may be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1904
...plants; you may remember an ancient poet, whose works we have all studied and copied at school long ago: A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. It is a pity that good works, among some sorts of people, are so little valued, and good words admired... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1905 - 483 pages
...you may remember an ancient poet, whose works we have all studied and copied at school long ago. " A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds." I mean seemingly pious discourses, instead of humane benevolent actions. Those they almost put out... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - Cheshire (England) - 1906
...Learning is there to make their living on. An earlier Henry Holcroft, in 1742, recorded in it that A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. A still earlier possessor used Shelton's zeiglographic or shorthand, and lets us know that on August... | |
 | Kate Van Wagenen - Spellers - 1909
...El'len sev'en ty soap brush comb store water keep tree PROVERBS AND MAXIMS A stitch in time saves nine. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. A kindly act is a kernel sown That will grow to a goodly tree. A bird in the hand is worth two in the... | |
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