Proverbial wisdom, with preface by B. JerroldWilliam Blanchard Jerrold 1874 |
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... young trooper should have an old horse . Abundance , like want , ruins many . Abundance o ' law breaks nae law . Abused patience turns to fury . According to your purse , govern your mouth . Action is the proper fruit of knowledge . Act ...
... young trooper should have an old horse . Abundance , like want , ruins many . Abundance o ' law breaks nae law . Abused patience turns to fury . According to your purse , govern your mouth . Action is the proper fruit of knowledge . Act ...
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... young lawyer . An old wrinkle never wears out . An open countenance often conceals close thoughts . An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle . An ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of wit . An ounce of bought wit is worth a ...
... young lawyer . An old wrinkle never wears out . An open countenance often conceals close thoughts . An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle . An ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of wit . An ounce of bought wit is worth a ...
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... young may spend when he is old . He who teaches virtue is greater than a father . He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life . He who waits for riches to be charitable will be never so . He will never get to heaven ...
... young may spend when he is old . He who teaches virtue is greater than a father . He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life . He who waits for riches to be charitable will be never so . He will never get to heaven ...
Page 68
... young , and spend when you are old . Sparrows fight for corn , which is none of their own . Speak little and to the purpose , and you will pass for some- body . Speak well of your friend , of your enemy say nothing . Speak what you ...
... young , and spend when you are old . Sparrows fight for corn , which is none of their own . Speak little and to the purpose , and you will pass for some- body . Speak well of your friend , of your enemy say nothing . Speak what you ...
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... young ones beauties . The ox when weariest treads surest . The paleness of the pilot is sign of a storm . The path of virtue is the path of peace . The pen of the tongue should be dipped in the ink of the heart . The people will worship ...
... young ones beauties . The ox when weariest treads surest . The paleness of the pilot is sign of a storm . The path of virtue is the path of peace . The pen of the tongue should be dipped in the ink of the heart . The people will worship ...
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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
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.