Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.
May those who love us love us. And those who hate us may God turn their hearts. And if he doesnt turn their hearts may he turn their ankles so well know them by their limping.
Whatever you teach be brief what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.
He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
Its tough trying to keep your feet on the ground your head above the clouds your nose to the grindstone your shoulder to the wheel your finger on the pulse your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.
For proverbs are the pith the proprieties the proofs the purities the elegancies as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace to understand them a good.
Dont you go believing in sayings Picotee they are all made by men for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings they are so trite so threadbare that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the...
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