Proverbial wisdom, with preface by B. JerroldWilliam Blanchard Jerrold 1874 |
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... gain- said , as " Rome was not built in a day ; " by a sharp appeal to the imagination , as " Patience and the mul- berry leaf will become satin ; " by the quaint juxtaxposi- tion of two qualities or things , as " Oil and truth will get ...
... gain- said , as " Rome was not built in a day ; " by a sharp appeal to the imagination , as " Patience and the mul- berry leaf will become satin ; " by the quaint juxtaxposi- tion of two qualities or things , as " Oil and truth will get ...
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... gain- said , as " Rome was not built in a day ; " by a sharp appeal to the imagination , as " Patience and the mul- berry leaf will become satin ; " by the quaint juxtaxposi- tion of two qualities or things , as " Oil and truth will get ...
... gain- said , as " Rome was not built in a day ; " by a sharp appeal to the imagination , as " Patience and the mul- berry leaf will become satin ; " by the quaint juxtaxposi- tion of two qualities or things , as " Oil and truth will get ...
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... gains an enemy , but often loses a friend . A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning . A kindly word cools anger . A lass that has mony wooers aft wails the warst . A leaky ship needs muckle pumping . A leal heart never lied . A ...
... gains an enemy , but often loses a friend . A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning . A kindly word cools anger . A lass that has mony wooers aft wails the warst . A leaky ship needs muckle pumping . A leal heart never lied . A ...
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... gain the victory over them . Do in the hole as thou would'st do in the hall . Do not all you can ; spend not all you have ; believe not all you hear ; and tell not all you know . Do not close a letter without reading it , nor drink ...
... gain the victory over them . Do in the hole as thou would'st do in the hall . Do not all you can ; spend not all you have ; believe not all you hear ; and tell not all you know . Do not close a letter without reading it , nor drink ...
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... gain the credit of truth . Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds . Fame , like a river , is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off . Fancy may kill or cure . Fancy surpasses beauty . Fann'd fire , and forced iove , never did well ...
... gain the credit of truth . Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds . Fame , like a river , is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off . Fancy may kill or cure . Fancy surpasses beauty . Fann'd fire , and forced iove , never did well ...
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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
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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.