Proverbial wisdom, with preface by B. JerroldWilliam Blanchard Jerrold 1874 |
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... fault confessed is half redressed ; " " Wide will wear , but narrow will tear ; " and - say just over the chimney- glass " Choose your wife on Saturday , not on Sunday . " This is as Dr Primrose chose Mrs Primrose , for qualities that ...
... fault confessed is half redressed ; " " Wide will wear , but narrow will tear ; " and - say just over the chimney- glass " Choose your wife on Saturday , not on Sunday . " This is as Dr Primrose chose Mrs Primrose , for qualities that ...
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... fault confessed is half redressed . A fault , once denied , is twice committed . A fine diamond may be ill - set . A flow of words is no proof of wisdom . A flow will have an ebb . A fool always comes short of his reckoning . A fool and ...
... fault confessed is half redressed . A fault , once denied , is twice committed . A fine diamond may be ill - set . A flow of words is no proof of wisdom . A flow will have an ebb . A fool always comes short of his reckoning . A fool and ...
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... fault has no excuse , and deserves no pardon . A willing mind makes a light foot . A wise lawyer ne'er gangs to law himsel ' . A wise man gets learning frae them that hae nane o ' their ain . A wise man is a great wonder . A wise man ...
... fault has no excuse , and deserves no pardon . A willing mind makes a light foot . A wise lawyer ne'er gangs to law himsel ' . A wise man gets learning frae them that hae nane o ' their ain . A wise man is a great wonder . A wise man ...
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... faults wise men correct their own . By preparing for the worst , we may often compass the best . By requiting one friend we invite many . C CALAMITY is the touchstone of a brave mind , Call not a surgeon before you are wounded . Can a ...
... faults wise men correct their own . By preparing for the worst , we may often compass the best . By requiting one friend we invite many . C CALAMITY is the touchstone of a brave mind , Call not a surgeon before you are wounded . Can a ...
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... fault doubles it . Deserve success , and you shall command it . Desire to be famous , but be careful to purchase fame with credit . Despair gives courage to a coward . Despair hath ruined some ; but presumption multitudes . Desperate ...
... fault doubles it . Deserve success , and you shall command it . Desire to be famous , but be careful to purchase fame with credit . Despair gives courage to a coward . Despair hath ruined some ; but presumption multitudes . Desperate ...
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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.