Proverbial wisdom, with preface by B. JerroldWilliam Blanchard Jerrold 1874 |
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... death is sudden to the unprepared . All happiness is in the mind .. All is soon ready in an orderly house . All's well that ends well . All men can't be first . All men can't be masters , All men naturally have some love of truth . All ...
... death is sudden to the unprepared . All happiness is in the mind .. All is soon ready in an orderly house . All's well that ends well . All men can't be first . All men can't be masters , All men naturally have some love of truth . All ...
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... Death and marriage break term - day . Death and the grave make no distinction of persons . Death defies the doctor . Death devours lambs as well as sheep . Death hath nothing terrible in it , but what life hath made SO . Death is the ...
... Death and marriage break term - day . Death and the grave make no distinction of persons . Death defies the doctor . Death devours lambs as well as sheep . Death hath nothing terrible in it , but what life hath made SO . Death is the ...
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... lawyers are bad neighbours . Good men are human suns - they brighten and warm their several spheres . Good men must die , but death cannot kill their names . Good swimmers are oftenest drowned . Good that comes too 34 PROVERBIAL WISDOM .
... lawyers are bad neighbours . Good men are human suns - they brighten and warm their several spheres . Good men must die , but death cannot kill their names . Good swimmers are oftenest drowned . Good that comes too 34 PROVERBIAL WISDOM .
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... death of one son , than he smiles at the birth of many . The favour of great men and the praise of the world are not much to be relied on . The fear of war is worse than war itself . The filter of misfortune is needed to separate true ...
... death of one son , than he smiles at the birth of many . The favour of great men and the praise of the world are not much to be relied on . The fear of war is worse than war itself . The filter of misfortune is needed to separate true ...
Common terms and phrases
auld beauty better Beware bird BLANCHARD JERROLD canna comes counsel danger deceived devil Dinna drink DUNN AND WRIGHT enemy fair fat kitchen fault fear folly fool fortune frae friendship Friezland gang give GLASGOW goes gold greatest gude hame hang happy haud heart heaven honest honour hope JOHN MENZIES keep kens knave knows lawyer lies long live looking-glass Love thy neighbour mair man's Marriage marry maun maxims mind misfortune mony morning naething nane neighbours never night old fox ower owls to Athens pleasure plough praise PROVERBIAL WISDOM purse rich Rolling stones servant SIR WALTER SCOTT speak There's things thinks thou thyself tongue trust truth twice vice virtue weel wife wind winna Wisdom rides wise wolf words worse worth young
Popular passages
Page 78 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 38 - If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgot you. If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.
Page 39 - Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior : for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence?
Page 67 - There is no reputation so clear but a slanderer may stain it. There is no short cut of a way, without some ill way. There is no such flatterer as a man's self. There is no sufficient recompense for an unjust slander.
Page 65 - There are some solitary wretches, who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private. The vanity of human life is, like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Page 70 - Tis easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again. 'Tis easier to avoid a fault than acquire perfection.
Page 51 - No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Page 72 - To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs.
Page 60 - the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a'-gley." The Captain's hopes were totally frustrated.