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... is better than riches . Old men who have loved young com- pany , and been conversant continually with them , have been of long life . Lord Bacon . All are not saints who go to church . - 10 A good tongue is a good safeguard . 12 January .
... is better than riches . Old men who have loved young com- pany , and been conversant continually with them , have been of long life . Lord Bacon . All are not saints who go to church . - 10 A good tongue is a good safeguard . 12 January .
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Royal cabinet birthday book. 1 6 A wonder lasts but nine days . 7 . A word is enough to the wise 8 A young man idle , an old man needy . - Heath False Brome Grass . Holy Grass . 9 Bad rye grows high . Contentment 31 February .
Royal cabinet birthday book. 1 6 A wonder lasts but nine days . 7 . A word is enough to the wise 8 A young man idle , an old man needy . - Heath False Brome Grass . Holy Grass . 9 Bad rye grows high . Contentment 31 February .
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... one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unskil- ful , the most mischievous . - Pope . His years but young , but his experi- ence old . - 30 In the end things will mend . 31 108 May .
... one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unskil- ful , the most mischievous . - Pope . His years but young , but his experi- ence old . - 30 In the end things will mend . 31 108 May .
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... young a body with so old a head . Hard Sea Grass . ( No. 2. ) 20 Liars should have good memories . - The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato ; the only good belonging to him is underground ...
... young a body with so old a head . Hard Sea Grass . ( No. 2. ) 20 Liars should have good memories . - The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato ; the only good belonging to him is underground ...
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... young men suffer from the want of them.- Locke . Make good use of time if you care for eternity . Common Quaking Grass . 29 Never's a long word . The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable : the happy impute all their ...
... young men suffer from the want of them.- Locke . Make good use of time if you care for eternity . Common Quaking Grass . 29 Never's a long word . The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable : the happy impute all their ...
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Page 156 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 42 - Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct...
Page 152 - 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 talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 214 - Humour can prevail, When Airs, and Flights, and Screams, and Scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty Eyes may roll ; Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul.
Page 164 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Page 14 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 86 - Marriage is the best state for man in general ; and every man is a worse man, in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.
Page 120 - And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others
Page 142 - IT is not work that kills men ; it is worry. Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
Page 22 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.