Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Great hopes make great men.
Soft words are hard arguments.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
What a day may bring, a day may take away.
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
The lion is not so fierce as painted.
All rivers do what they can for the sea.
That trial is not fair where affection is judge.
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
He that will not be merciful to his beast is a beast himself.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Associate with men of judgment, for judgment is found in conversation, and we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company.
A good garden may have some weeds.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
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