Proverbs, Maxims, and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically, Volume 1 |
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Arabian beggar Ben Jonson better Bible bird bite blind bread Byron catch Chinese Cicero comes counsel danger dead death devil Don Quixote doth drink Dutch enemy Envy Euripides evil eyes fall faults fear fire fish folly fool fortune friendship give goes gold Greek hand hang Hans Andersen happy hath heart heaven honor Horace horse Ital Johnson Juvenal keep king knave knows labor Latin live lose luck man's marry Massinger master mind misfortune mother mouse mouth never Ovid penny Petrarch Plautus pleasure Plutarch poor Pope poverty praise pride proverb Punch purse repentance rich seldom Seneca Shaks shame sheep silence sleep soon sorrow speak Syrus Tacitus Tamil thee things thou to-morrow Turk virtue wise Yorubas young
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Page 396 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 123 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page iv - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 476 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Page 273 - Macbeth does murder sleep;' the innocent sleep : Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course ; Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Page 489 - They talk about a woman's sphere. As though it had a limit; There's not a place in earth or heaven, There's not a task to mankind given, There's not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whisper, Yes or No, There's not a life, or death, or birth, That has a feather's weight of worth, Without a woman in it.
Page 130 - But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride — That hour o...
Page 332 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 271 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 437 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.