Proverbial wisdom, with preface by B. JerroldWilliam Blanchard Jerrold 1874 |
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... door- " Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready , and God will send the flax . " Within , and over the busy scene- " Hear a ' parties , " a warning to complaining children and servants , and to scandal - bearing neighbours , that justice ...
... door- " Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready , and God will send the flax . " Within , and over the busy scene- " Hear a ' parties , " a warning to complaining children and servants , and to scandal - bearing neighbours , that justice ...
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... door do often make a rich man poor . A nod of an honest man is enough . A part of the perfection of this life is to believe ourselves far from perfection . A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man . A pedant is rarely courageous ...
... door do often make a rich man poor . A nod of an honest man is enough . A part of the perfection of this life is to believe ourselves far from perfection . A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man . A pedant is rarely courageous ...
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... door shut against him . Aye tak the fee when the tear's in the ee . B BACCHUS hath drowned more men than Neptune . Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice . Be a friend to thyself , and others will be so too . Be always as ...
... door shut against him . Aye tak the fee when the tear's in the ee . B BACCHUS hath drowned more men than Neptune . Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice . Be a friend to thyself , and others will be so too . Be always as ...
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... door . Every flow has its ebb . Every fox must pay his own skin to the flayer . Every good scholar is not a good schoolmaster . Every herring must hang by its own gill . Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest . Every lamb knows its ...
... door . Every flow has its ebb . Every fox must pay his own skin to the flayer . Every good scholar is not a good schoolmaster . Every herring must hang by its own gill . Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest . Every lamb knows its ...
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... door . Every one thinks himself able to advise another . Every path hath a puddle . Every plummet is not for every sound . Every potter praises his own pot , and more if it be broken . Every shoe fits not every foot . Every sin carries ...
... door . Every one thinks himself able to advise another . Every path hath a puddle . Every plummet is not for every sound . Every potter praises his own pot , and more if it be broken . Every shoe fits not every foot . Every sin carries ...
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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.