Proverbs and Their Lessons, Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies

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Macmillan and Company, 1879 - 195 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 193 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Strana 77 - He who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
Strana 162 - That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders!
Strana 173 - It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
Strana 17 - A man employing a long-recognised proverb is not speaking of his own, but uttering a faith and conviction very far wider than that of himself or of any single man ; and it is because he is so doing that...
Strana 167 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and 10 talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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