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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws. - [Riches] Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. - [Riches] Seek for good, but expect evil. - [Goodness] She who desires to see, desires also to be seen. - [Display] Short sentences drawn from a long experience. - [Proverbs (General)] Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles. - [Sleep] Sloth * * * never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. - [Sloth] Smell a rat. - [Proverbial Phrases] Take away the motive, and you take away the sin. - [Motive] The absent feel and fear every ill. - [Absence] The absent fell and fear every ill. - [Absence] The ass bears the load, but not the overload. - [Excess] The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty. - [Love] The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. - [Vanity] The little birds have God for their caterer. - [Birds] The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. - [Valor] The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. - [Acting] The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. - [Poetry] The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it. - [Reputation] The wicked are always ungrateful. - [Ingratitude] The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates. - [Hand] There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches. - [Death] There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman. - [Women] There is nothing costs less than civility. - [Politeness] Three things too much and three too little are pernicious to man: to speak much and know little; to spend much and have little; to presume much and be worth little. - [Indiscretion] Displaying page 3 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8
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