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Pale death enters with impartial step the cottages of the poor and the palaces of the rich. - [Death] Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert. - [Proverbs] Pleasure bought with pain does harm. - [Proverbs] Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion. - [Proverbs] Punishment follows close on the heels of crime. - [Proverbs] Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea. - [Proverbs] Remember to be calm in adversity. - [Adversity] Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue. - [Proverbs] Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. - [Proverbs] Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity. - [Ridicule] Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. - [Proverbs] Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race. - [Proverbs] Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it. - [Proverbs] Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence. - [Appetite] Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. - [Procrastination] Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. - [Proverbs] Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. - [Present] Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. - [Proverbs] Small things become the small. - [Proverbs] Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. - [Wealth] Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood. - [Proverbs] Still though the headlong cavalier, O'er rough and smooth, in wild career, Seems racing with the wind; His sad companion, ghastly pale, And darksome as a widow's veil, Care keeps her seat behind. - [Care] Strength without judgment falls by its own weight. - [Proverbs] Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself. - [Strength] Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind. - [Advice] Displaying page 9 of 25 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [9] 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
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