Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other Popular Dicta from Many Lands, Classified and Arranged with AnnotationsG.P. Putman's sons, 1916 - 428 من الصفحات |
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... fool shineth no longer than he holds his tongue , " and five thousand years ago they declared that " He that is wrong fights against himself . " Long before the coming of Christ the people of the Orient were repeating our familiar ...
... fool shineth no longer than he holds his tongue , " and five thousand years ago they declared that " He that is wrong fights against himself . " Long before the coming of Christ the people of the Orient were repeating our familiar ...
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... fools , but are particularly severe on priests , physicians , and lawyers whom they ridicule with a plain- ness of speech that seems at times almost cruel . If a saying presents to the mind a ludicrous picture of inconsistency ...
... fools , but are particularly severe on priests , physicians , and lawyers whom they ridicule with a plain- ness of speech that seems at times almost cruel . If a saying presents to the mind a ludicrous picture of inconsistency ...
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... fool according to his folly , lest he be wise in his own conceit , ' and he also tells us to ' Answer not a fool according to his folly , lest thou also be like unto him . ' These two directions are placed one immediately after the ...
... fool according to his folly , lest he be wise in his own conceit , ' and he also tells us to ' Answer not a fool according to his folly , lest thou also be like unto him . ' These two directions are placed one immediately after the ...
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... fools discuss changes in atmospheric conditions , for comfort and health often depend on rain or sunshine , heat or cold . It takes but little knowledge of human nature to understand the marked influence that the " way of the wind " has ...
... fools discuss changes in atmospheric conditions , for comfort and health often depend on rain or sunshine , heat or cold . It takes but little knowledge of human nature to understand the marked influence that the " way of the wind " has ...
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... fools . ( Hebrew ) . " As a thorny staff that riseth up in the hand of a drunkard , so is a proverb in the mouth of a fool . " -Lange's Translation of Prov . xxvi : 9 . As the country , so the proverb . ( German ) . " A nation's ...
... fools . ( Hebrew ) . " As a thorny staff that riseth up in the hand of a drunkard , so is a proverb in the mouth of a fool . " -Lange's Translation of Prov . xxvi : 9 . As the country , so the proverb . ( German ) . " A nation's ...
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الصفحة 99 - A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
الصفحة 98 - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
الصفحة 112 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
الصفحة 182 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
الصفحة 125 - For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.
الصفحة 95 - The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy. Still thou art blest compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och ! I backward cast my e'e On prospects drear, An' forward, tho' I canna see, I guess an
الصفحة 146 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
الصفحة 104 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
الصفحة 119 - For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
الصفحة 110 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.