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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - [Proverbs] A good name is better than bags of gold. - [Reputation] A little instrument of mighty power. - [Quill] A man dishonored is worse than dead. - [Scandal] A shy face is better than a forward heart. - [Bashfulness] All beauty does not inspire love. Some please the sight without captivating the affections. - [Beauty] All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle. - [Discretion] All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. - [Sorrow] Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. - [Mercy] An honest man's word is as good as his bond. - [Honesty] Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding. - [Self-will] Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. - [Caution] Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. - [Beauty] Blessings on him, who invented sleep. - [Blessings] By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never." - [Procrastination] Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially. - [Cunning] Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - [Diligence] Dine on little, and sup on less. - [Prudence] Every one in his own house and God in all of them. - [Home] Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone. - [Evil] For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome. - [Vanity] For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God. - [Friends] For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. - [Recreation] For the bow cannot stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. - [Pleasure] Good Christians should never avenge injuries. - [Vengeance] Displaying page 1 of 8 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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