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P RO F J BE AM E R M anor Pa . .
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Book of Proverbs .
When the righteous are in authority the peopl e rej oi ce .
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Solomon .
Loos e n a n n e rs are found on persons w ho are always

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Wh en a lobster s claw breaks another will sprou t

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out .
It is the sa n e in a lover s quarrel in a short tim e a ’
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claw will sprout ou t .
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The l ack O f money is a very vil .
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A fellow to cheat you out of hous e and home i s
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rr u ch as to say he cut your eye t eeth .
When a man resembles a frosted potato it , is a s u re in

dex he is a henpecked man
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The best love like the best wine flows withou t

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Love and Mirth form the essence o f a l l happ in es s

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Anger and hatred form the essence of a ll unhappin ess

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Justice is very O ften the thing we

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When y o u are surrounded by the ragged edges of des

pair use m o r e spiritual o il and your whole organization will
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m ove s weetly and happily .
I f y o u want to kill a child on the installment plan have ,
it to sleep with o l d and infirm people .
Don t consider that a deep down whole souled laugh

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dyspepsia f o r reli g ion .
I f you quit agitating a sor e it will heal in a short time , ,
if y o u quit agitating an evil it will die in short time , .
Love is bet ter to

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f y i n g glass .
The scoldi n g o f some women is enough to make the

bones o f a family anatomy in the closet rattle Some peo , , .
ple call it family raising I call it raising the devil , .
An engine without steam is like religion without the ,
sp rit of G o d in it .
He never w a s happy until he fell down stairs and bark ,
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t hat day o n he was a very decent man It was self educa

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tion t hat did it much better than schooling

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T ice and systematic kills the fun and leaves

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killing the laugh that is in it
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G is t he giver o f every good and perfect gift and i f

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we a r e in partnership with him ( in all troubles ) he will ,
n o t forsake us .
o m e radish f o r breakfast p l a y 1n g second fiddle to an

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o l d hypoc i t e at p r a y e r m ee t i n g
r and clearing a house filled ,
with hornets made an infidel ,

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S ampson
used the j awbone with great success in this ,
respect many women are a grand success

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man and a woman going to chu rc h the man walkin g

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ten feet ahead o f the woman they are married and that is ,
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The man w ho was both afraid and ashamed to die . We

should be neither afraid nor ashamed to die .
Extend to every on e a friendly salutation .
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I f you want to be successful in li fe the following six ,
rules are essential : temperance en e rgy punctuality honesty , , , ,
system and economy .
There are souls in the world that h ave the gift of fin d

in g j oy everywhere .
Twelve dollars spent for drink ,

to every one spent for
schooling .
You cannot scold enemies into submission ,
th ugh loving kindness can y o u win them .
can t lea r n t o be a blacks m ith b y reading y o u

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Love in O ld bachelors ( like fire in ol d woo d ) ,

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started is hard t o extinguish .
All soldiers are poo writers but they could see

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g ht enough t o save the g r ea t e st n a t i on on earth .
The person w ho imagines all the time O ften turns , ou t
to be a notori ous liar .
God wrought m illions O f years to prepare the earth in

all parts t o make man happy
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T he s nail does not sing . The lazy man does not bloom .
brilliant man takes much nutrition like a brillia nt

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amp that needs much oil .
While prosperity lasts make business spin wh en a d ve r

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s ity comes let things in .
Hconsulted the goose bone then the scales fell from

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Paul the Apostle told Timothy to stir up his religion

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Paul the hostler told the O l d toper to stir up his appetite /

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for the new hotel was a sure thing .
Golden days are results of golden deeds .
When y ou have a bee in your bonnet your head feels

big but when on your knees in prayer your heads feels
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B e sure you are right then go ahead ( David Crocket )

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rich man can commit any crime with impunity A .
p oor man i f he steals a pair of shoes to wear to school is

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sent two years to the penitentiary .
The faith of Columbus was so gr eat that ,

16 years of
e ff ort in the discovery did not d i s cou r a e him .
Conscience is reason s golden chain that does more to

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make a man than all the schools and churches combin ed .
Too much work and no play makes Jack a dull boy , .
H appy is t he man w ho is able to quote good proverbs .
Ther e is no medium that will convince a man sooner ,
than to q uot e an appropriate maxim .

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great many scolders that make the air bl ue p ut

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c oat of religion on their frightful habit and then call ,

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righteo us indign ation .
The weakes t link in the chain is an index to the strength

o f t he chain T he weakest organ in your mind is an i ndex
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to the strengt h o f your morals .
A swarm of
cro ssest bees in Mallay will not stin g
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you if you dont hurt them the same holds good in t he ,
human family Kindness . .
The safety of a country depend s more upon the culti

vation of the soil than on the power of the armies
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I f you have the blues make the wheels O f life revolve

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faster and they will flee like hornets from a riddled nest
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A chatterbox of a woman is n ot dangerous she is like ,
a firefly she is full o f flashes

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M any people are very unhappy because thei r souls are

u t of j oint and never had a single dose of spiritual medi
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ten per cent more that are total abstainers from all i n t o xi
cants from the fact t hat they d o ten per cent more work
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The golden dream s o f youth are better p oss essions than

the golden dreams o f ol d age with great possessions o f ,
gold and silver .
I f we knew all G o d knows o f ou r lives ,

we would n ot
censure others as muc h as W e do .
When electricity is wanting the trolley runs slowly , .
When the blood flows s l o w l v through vour veins your mind ,
and body runs slowly .

All that glitters is n ot gold often have you heard that

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Yawning is a sign that the bodily and mental powers are

run down like a clock they need winding up sleep and rest
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is the key .
God in trees and men never makes them perfectly ,
straight he al ways leaves an opening for schooling t o make

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crooked places straight .
Rivalry
is the best medi u m in t he world to drive evil
spirits away It is the oil of life
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The crowing hen and the scolding woman are ,
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their latitude .
Every child s ho ul d /
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they are taught to rea d .
A g oo d ,
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h ea r t y laugh invigorates every living creature
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Castles crumble into ashes as the ages roll on , but good

proverbs live to all eternity .
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Proverbs never die Dust t o dust is written on every
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thing else proverbs live t o all etern ity the older they get
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the more they sparkle like the light i n the lighthouse to the
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The fear O f the Lord is the beginning O f W i sdom , .
He wears the rose of youth upon him .

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T he life is long that answers life s great purpose
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( Y oung )
There was a silence deep as death and the noblest held ,
their breath for a time ( Campbell . .

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She gave me fo r my pains a world of sighs

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Sigh no more ladies sigh , ,

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H atred s t i r et h up strife but love ,

c ov e r t h all sins ( O . ld
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Duty is a power which rises with us in the mornin g ,
and goes to rest with us at night ( G ladstone ) . .
A man s true influence is determined by his worth

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Great results can t be gained at Once We mus t be ’

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satisfied as we go along step by step ( S miles ) ,

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The part O f li fe that stands the test of years is , t he

only part that has been worth living ( Smiles ) . .
The alabaster box was broken and is in oblivion but -
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t he released fragrance is destined t o live to all eternity .
( Beecher ) .
O f a truth I perceive th at, G od is no respecter of p e r
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The ruling p a s s w n be what it , w 1l l the ruling con q ue rs

reason still ( Pope ) . .
To be of no church is dangerous , .
( Johnston ) .
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal .
( hd o o r e) .
O h , Shame where is thy blush , .

( Shakespeare ) .
M en w ho are most infamous are the most fond , of

fam ( Churchill
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rror of reason may be tolerated wher e r eas on

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The mercy of t he Lord is from everlasting ,

to e ve r l a s t
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With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on The e ,
s aith the Lord ( Isa 54 ; . .
L ove l ooks not with the eyes but with the mind , , an d ,
therefore is a winged cupid painted blind

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( Shakespeare ) .
Swe e t mercy is nobility s badge ( S hakespeare )

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H e that is surety for an other is never sure of himsel f , .
It is a long lane that has no turn .
The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar .
The rollin g stone gathers no moss .
A smile and cheery word is worth more than gold , .
He takes t he bull right by the horns .
People
are n o t n ear so happy as you think t hey are ,
there is a fly in the honey .
The rolli n g stone gathers no moss .
T he wolf ch a nges his coat but not his disposition , .
True merit is like a deep river ,

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n o i se it makes .
At Rom e do as Rome does .
Set a thief to catch a thief .

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I f it is a good thing ,d o it now and don t wait for ,

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O pportunity is the cream of time .
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Trust not a horse 3 heel nor a dog s mouth ,
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T ru s t him no further than yo u can see him .
By faith Columbus discovered America .
Faith i sthe substance O f things hoped for the e v idence ,
of unseen things .
A s slippery as an eel .
A guilty conscience is an enemy that lives with

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possessor .
Y ou can sell your conscience with your g oods .
That must be true which all men sa v .
W ho does no evil is apt to suspect none

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Who asks few favors is best received , .
Don t fi nd fault with what you don t understand

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A goose is happy when it rains so is a man wh en , he

can get a good shelter .
They who only seek the faults of others will find noth ,
in g else .
A fault confessed is a fault half redressed

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The reproof to a wise man kindly spoken ne v er doe s ,
any harm .
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V ery often j ustice is the very thing a man don t want

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A man eating ice cream with a girl is not say i ng that ,
he is in love with her .
I f we d i d not
have so many fatted calves , we would
not have so many prodigal sons .
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When G o d is so all powerful tis strange that we don t ,
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get in touch with that all power and give the devil a co l d ,
shoulder .
disintegrates and scatters all metals to give a j ob

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to future generations to dig the ore smelt it and p lace it , ,
into u p to date machinery

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Franklin Shakespeare Bacon and all other , , ,

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thinkers wrote their greatest thoughts in maxims
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A child died the mother s love caused her to rock the ,

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cradle of ages with her loving angel ,

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The fear of G o d n a kc s
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makes a liar .
The m ore good a man ha s t he m ore good he w a n t s , .
The more bad a man has the more he war ts .
It pays a big interest t o have t he t o n gu e under good

discipline by good reason and conscience
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The love o f m on ey is a nt a g n et that draws IT O T C p eopl e ‘
o ff the track than any other m e d iu m he n ce it is ca l l ed t he

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As y o u make your bed , y o u m ust lie on it .
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It does n ot matter s o much what people worship if it ,
gives a pleasant and staying satisfaction It does n ot matter .
so much what we eat if it only gives a pleasant staying

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satis faction .
Raise
a family in a happy medium Learning reli .
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gion and all things make good citizens and good husban d s
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and wives .
I f you can t get through with all your work while you
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The entire history o f a large volu m e is o ften a b i d g ,

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ed i n a neat maxim .
There is no medium on earth by which a round school ,
ing can be gained so readily as through the medium o f ,
com m i t i n g maxims .
Whatever debauches a nation insults the flag ,

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The sal oon lays a criminal hand on the ballot box .
Human life is right side up only when the soul is ,

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If you want to Be success ful in life the following are ,
the great essentials : energy punctuality honesty system , , ,
and economy .
N 0 one is a failure ,
so long as he has grit to try again .
Every situation in life is a school every experienc e ,
a teacher .
There are souls in the world that have the gift of fin d

in g j oy everywhere .
Each one of us receives an individual education and we ,
are all scholars l n the great school o f nature .

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The greatest lessons in life are su ffering pain sorrow , , ,
disappointments and burdens .
Better an empty house than a bad tenant ,

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The beetl e is beautiful in the eyes of its mother .
When we do n ot respect we soon cease to love

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A ll mankind respects and loves a lover .
The way t o wealth is as plain as the way t o the mill

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it depends o n two things industry and frugality ( Frank

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Fear is the graveyard of prosperity .
The virtue of prosperity is temperance .

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Doing good is the only certain happy action O f a man s

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and y Ou will sue
c eed .
( S ydney Smith ) .
Who dare n ot speak his free tho ught is a slave , .

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shak e a l l his other vices to keep vanity alive .

( F ranklin ) .
Folly is soon learned .

( Cowper ) .
M ethod will teach y o u to save time .

(G oeth ) .
An invest m ent in k n owledge pays the best intere s t , .
( O l d Maxim ) .
Labor is the cradle of manliness .

( Farrer ) .
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A circumspective view o f last year s fault s ’

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us to take a higher step in our existence .
As you sow you shall reap

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H e that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow

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Forbidden things have a sweet charm .
A n open door may tempt a saint .
The proof of the pudding is a chew of the bag ,

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We j udge a tree by its f r

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Time is money .
O ne hour today is worth two tomorrow

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All things come to him who waits .
April shOw e r s bring forth May flowers

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Christm as comes but once a year .
They w ho lose today may win tomorrow

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I f you want to do a mean thing wait until to m orrow ,

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It is never too late to do good .
I f men have no care for the future they will soon have,
sorro w .
There IS a tide in the a ff airs of m en ,

which taken at the ,
flood leads to fortune

, .
Omit no opportunity of doing good and you will find ,
no opportunity O f doing bad .

He fasts enough whose wi fe scolds all dinner time

,
.
Blow n ot your own horn too loud .
When the stomach is full the heart is glad unless he , ,
an i the pain is pronounced a visitation of t h

'
s o d d y p p
l s é t c ,
e
Al m ighty .
Forg ive and forget :
An inj ury forgiven ,

is better than inj ury revenged .
He who does wrong never lacks excuses .
A good friend in time of need is better than g old or
s ilver
.
He is a good friend who speaks well behind our back s

,
.
A f riend is neve r known until needed .
T he best of f r1 en d s must pa r t only for a season

,
.
The plant of friendship must be watered often or ,

it
'
wi l l die .
Good com pany makes short miles .
It is better to be alone than in bad company , .
T O be engaged in sweet discourse makes short days , and

nights .
Sleep lays all thoughts quite When w e awake they .

,
are rested and if kept in this primitive and physical purity

, ,
they will go through life white and pure .
The mind of man is the strongest power in all creation .
Notwithstanding w e can t see this great power ’

.
There is n o time in life when books do not influence a

man ( B esant )
. .
She looks as though butter would n ot melt In her

m on t h .
He always had three hands right left , , ,

an d a little be
hind hand .
N O hin ge or loop to han g a doubt on .

( Shakespear e )
Li fting a man into higher life is like lifting a hous e , ,
all parts are raised higher giving more ventilation and ,
re light .
Every hard task we master fits us ,

fo r a harder on e the
next t ime .
The 1 o y a l road to greatness is ,

no t to shrink from all
responsibilities .
Di fficult m Is S IO n s performed in God s service are the ’
m ost commendable traits o f humanity .
They w ho are always l ooking for a soft snap are in the ,
school O f uselessness and their lives will be failures

, .
Early hardships in life have laid the foundation of ,
every truly great man .
Li fe is n ot measured by the time we live but by our ,
actions .
is n ot hard t o lay the foundation but to build high

It ,
er, and higher and never finish , .
loc o m otive O ff the track can t make a record in run

A ,
’
ni n g the sa m e in a young man when O ff the track in busi

o r i n religio n he can t m ake a record ’
nes s , , .
26 BO O K OF PRO VE BBS
'
Doing g oo d is
,
t he only happy action of a man s life .
( S y dney ) .
Censure is the tax a ,

man payeth to the public for be,
ing e n i n en t ( Swi ft )
. . .
Hope nothing fo r luck and you will

,
n ot be d i sa p
pointed .
A deaf husband and a blind wi fe make a good happy

, , ,
coupl e.
City children cannot see as far as country children .
Many people grumble because the ,

Creator placed
thorns with the roses .
Man holds the string to the kite and thus governs the ,
course of t he smallest creatur es .
Thought an nihilates distance ; it is faster than light or

electricity .
Your power is graded by the percentage of positive ,
electricity your body contains .
In the prime O f life people have more magn etism than

,
in youth or old age

, .
Youn g children are very negative .
Without the observance of Sabbath ,

the v ari et y of
time is gone .
Nature i n all her grand eur is the greatest and g ran d es t ,
variety show in a l l the uni v erse

, .
The works of creation and Providen ce , a re a m on g al l

branches the grand e s t .
BOOK OF P ROVE RBS .
27
To a mother a child is everything but to a chil d a par ,
en t is only a link in the chain of existence ( Be a con s fi el d ) .

.
I f a person is a tramp he is his o wn boss even then

‘
he has to keep a sharp look o u t fo r the constable .
It i s t he d ai l y incessant fretting that saps ,

out your
vitality .
Admiration of the qualities O f others , gains m ore

friends than through any other medium .
’
Extreme admiration puts ,
ou t the critic s ey e .
The kind o f man that nations turn out is . t he t est of
civilization not the census o f the large cit y

,
.
The eye is the window through w hich the winged

thoughts fly ; like the sunlight o f the placid lake .
The eye is t he window of the soul .
Laughter and tears are equally useful ; t he O ne is to

enlighten o u r reason and give us a higher touch O f human
,
ity the other is to check o u r forward spirits

,
.
repay those who have bef r i ended us the most is

T o , ,
to befriend them with compo u nd inte est r .
balking hors e makes r o t 1 o s in t he wrong direction ;

A '
r -
the old toper makes motio n s in t he wron g direction .
Turning up the s o d in the field t o r ai s e a c op t he r

,
deeper y ou plough t he larger the cro p ; you n g m a n make

, .
the s o d fly and show yourself a m a n .
Spring water supported by a heavy hl l l will n ot fail ; a

,
man supported by a heavy m ind backed bv industry and

, .
frugality will never fail

, .
28 BOOK OF P RO VE RBS .
No doubt the beasts birds and insects hear the music, , ,
from the stars .
To criticize sermons O ften uproots good soil ,

.
A man is n ot properly refined until he passes through ,
the fiery furnace .
It is in the quiet places that the mighty rivers rise It ,

.
IS in the quiet meditations f rom which all o u r deep thoughts

rise that make the mighty inventions .
'
O the tre e O f righteousn e ss

n , y o u find bl oom m g
fl owers o f triu m ph and happiness .
Where w e find G od ,
in his fullest sense is in the cha n ,
ber of solitude .
When a man is t oo busy to answer an honest ques t i on

he is more o f a curse than a blessing to humanit y .
\
At what y o u laugh at most heartily that is the best
‘
-
,
index to y o u r character .
A cinder in your eye is a trifle out of place ; placed , ,
in the coke ovens it is all right ; it is the t r ifle s o ut of place

that cause the bad frictions .
Proverbs are the best reasons O f all ages boiled down ; “
they are gems o f the human ized intelligence o f all mankind .
True love uses bad grammar without criticism .
Noble minds develop great thoughts called gems , .
M a x 1m s are golden thoughts in short sayings , .
Religion should be a rule in life the same as our daily ,
meals .
BO O K OF P RO VER BS .
’
It is a good thing to have tw o strings to on e s bo w .
O pportunities neglected are lost forever .
Every man w ho knows nothing except

,
to depreciate
e xcellencies of ot hers is unhappy ,
.
S hoot folly as it flies .

( Pop e )
It is n ot your prosperity but your actions that will , ,
perpetuate Vour memory ( Napoleon ) . .
There are many people who are constantly praying t o

G o d to give give give but when the poor appeal to them
, , , ,
t hey are deaf .
How poor they are that have no patience .

( S ha ke e
speare ) .
Humbl e love ,
n ot proud scien ce keep s the door ,
to
heaven .
Never contract a friendship with a m a n w ho is not bet

ter than thyself ( Confucius ) . .
Eve y a tt err pt t o m a ke others h a ppy a d e v e r v sin l eft

r .
n
behind is a tep nearer to heaven ( Stanl ey )

,
s . .
Hol d your hand befor e t he light : if vo u can s ee

through t he crevices between t he j oints o f y o u r finger s
-
y o u can t keep secret s

’
.
Twelve dol l ars are sp ent fo r d r ink ,

to eve r y on e fo r
schooling .
Drunken ness has destroyed eve y gover n me n t that ever r
flourished on earth .
The s a fet V of a nation depends upon its so briety .

Gold dust scattered with the sa nds o f the sea will do

nothing but gathered together will change a barren deser t
, ,
to a blooming garden .
They who live in the melancholy state live miser ,
The way of the transgressor IS hard .

( Bible ) .
The last of the sand in the hour glass runs faster ; the
last O f life runs fastest .
Trouble like quick sand the more

, , y o u flounder in it
the deeper y o u sink .
Worry weakens the faculties of the mind as well as

,
the powers O f the body .
The wages of sin is death .

( Bible ) .
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the ,
volume of the week ( Longfellow ) . .
Laugh and the world laughs with you ; weep and y o u
weep alone ( O l d Maxim )

. .
When in trouble pray t o G o d ; if things go wrong when

God wills it let it g o it means the highest kind o f success
, ,
.
Like the water r ushin g down the falls of Nia g a ra

dragging all with it The same is time rushing down the
.
‘
stream and dragging all along .
I dle hours and money plenty make people most

, ,
un
happy .
Like a bird beating against i ts cage even s o is man ,
be a t m g a g a m s t the cage O f time t o get the liberty o f his ,
soul .
Exhibit no impatience when being observed at the
’
The brightest thoughts emanate from a child s mind ,
after recess in school then all the mental and physical organs
,
are perfectly harmonized .
Little shoes and stockings scattered over the floor at ,
bed time is the index of sw eet voices prattling in the

,
morning n o t unlike little angels

,
.
Eat slowly an ordinary meal should occupy about

,
thirty minutes .
The knife is only to cut meat and ,

O ther articles of
You should use your fork to convey all foods to t he

mouth .
Do n ot fil l t he m out h too full .
God in his almighty power in the finest works is

, , t he
most powerful Gravitation is an illustration
. .
W edlocks like padlocks sometimes v ery bad locks, .
The reason of so many unhappy matches l adies sp end

too much time in making nets and not enough time in mak ,
ing cages ( Swift ) . .
Who weds a s ot , and gets a cot will lose the cot and
, t he
sot ( D utch )
. .
Having too many friends is more of an inj ur y than , ,
not to have any at all .
The medium to happiness is to know j ust enoug h , of

the right things .
32 B O O K OF PROVE RBS .
In keeping the passions under subj ection , w eshould be

careful n ot to violate the laws of health .
A man like a brick must

, , g o through a furnace of fire
be f ore he is fit for use .
In deep solitude intellectual gems are picked up and ,
happily placed to make proverbs .
Among all words kindness stands above all it carri es

, ,
all the virtues .
Always looking at the right side develops a bright

ne s s that will last .
The richest promises in the Bible are in fav

or of the ,
It takes a pure heart to make a pu re li fe .
“
Churc h rivals are trimming our lamps for Christian
Closing a hole in the levee will stop a fright ful calamity .
A hole in an instrument of writing will sometimes cause , , ,
a great la ws uit .
I
am an American because America is for common ,
people ( M c Kin l e y )
. .
The Heavens declare thy righteousness , O h, Lord .
( Kin g David ) .
A religious spirit helps every man .

(M c Kin l e y )
I f a man has red hair and marries a woman with r ed ,
hair fight
, .
Deep water like a deep mind runs slowly

, , .
Salt in the sea keeps it from stagnating ; the spirit of

G od , in a man keeps him from stagna ting
,
.
To stop the water running into your cellar you must ,
stop the source ; to stop t he whiskey from running into your

mouth you must s t op the source
,
-
.
All s c r1p t u r e 1s given by inspiration of G od and i s ,
profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for i n

, , ,
struction 1n righteousness .
A hors e without a bridle is very unsafe ; a man without ,
rel i gion is also unsafe

, , ,
.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you

,
.
( Bible ) .
He that allows himself to be trodden on must not com ,
plain if he is trampled on ( Kent ) . .
A l ight tongue a light mind ; a heavy tongue a heavy

, ,
min d /
The song O f the birds tells the lati tude and the cli , ,
mate
Hazel bushes are sti ff and ugly like an ugly Christ ,
ian willows are mild and humble like a good Christian , .
’
The world s greatest thoughts placed in one sentence , ,
would make a world gem .
The lever of the printing press is strong enough to ,
move the world .
Socrates wa s the greatest sage the world ever saw , .
Youth is the time when seeds of character are sown .
Whos oever lives a pio n s life blesses the race

.
, .
A dangerous ending may have its origin from delays ,
in r ight starting .
To do our best is what G od expects .
G olden days are the result of golden deeds

,
.
A week of work is not as bad as one day of worry

,
.
’
Do that for which you are fitted ; chickens can t swim
with ducks .
A well lighted lamp must be kept filled . A successful

man must be kept full o f pure blood .
Arts like life had their origin in darkness

, ,
.
A good many women act as if they were born to

wound a nd not to heal
, .
The n a re runs O ff when she gets too much oats ; the

’
'
bo v ru n s o fi when he gets t oo much of his father s money

‘
,
’
.
O n ly the pure in heart can be brave and powerful .
Any kind O f light means day ; any kind of darkness

m ea n s night .
A m a n can n ot lead an impious lif e and die happy ; a ,
r a n can n ot walk a m ong thorns and not be pierced .
Reviewing
primiti ve creation and comparing the man ,
a g e brings us to the long periods that is in store for the

,
hu m an kingdom .
Mother and home are synonymous term s

, , .
The prayer of the tongue does not prepare us for hea

ven ; neither does the sight O f medicine cure the sick .
BOO K OF PRO VER BS . 35
N O woman ever admitted that she laced too ti ghtl y .
ask a favor o f a man w ho is hun g r v

'
l
‘
t ew r .
A D 1 58 5 Pope Gregory revised the almanac hence

. .
, , ,
the old and n e w s tyle of time
When whiskey entered the family a n d cha ed Christ

'
,
s
out it made it worse ; but when Christ entered the family

,
it was made better .
An educated hog still goes to the pool to wallow ; and

the educated drunkard still goes to the bar to s w al l ow beer .
When a man hungers after righteousness , he turn s

more Godlike in all things .
The world is still deceived with ornament s .

( Shakes
p e are ) .
It is not the rich and good eat a ble t hat makes the s
.
feast a success but it is the cheer f u l n ess O f the guests

,
.
Claredon )
The n 1ght i n g a l e can only si n g ,

on e song . an d is per
fe c t l y happy .
Thought takes a man out of servi t ude into freedom

, .
Look before y o u leap ; as you sow y ou reap .

( Butler ) .
He who believes t hat every heart is untrue has some ,
thi ng unsound at the core o f his o w n ( Eliza Cook ) . .
If you leap into the well Providence is not obliged to ,
pull you out .
Darkness at the right ti m e and at the right place

, .
,
ha s no shame .
Many people are like a big gun with a blank cartridge ,
when they go o ff it is all noise .
Crisp sayings are gems that crack

,
.
There are as many prodigal daughters as sons .
A mother is a mother all the days of her life ; a father

,
is a father until he has his second wife

,
.
The more knowledge w e have O f nature the nearer our ,
partnership stands with God .
’
Wrong doing and doing n othing are the same in God s ,
sight they are both noted violations

,
.
Daily work keeps your system O iled and keeps rust and ,
decay away ; like a machine you wear better and live ,
longer .
Don t belike t he farm er w ho laid a death trap for the

’
corncrib thief and w ho himsel f; was the first victim

, , .
Independence adds vigor and self reliance , .
Your bank account and your word should be

, , s y n on v
mous .
Never invest m oney , un less it contains solid value .
The di ff erent muscles of the body act harmoniously to ,
gether the same philosophy holds good in a well regulated

family .
The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want , .

( King
David ) .
Work as though you would live always and live as ,
though you would die to day ( M rs Rosalia Grabel ) . . .

BO O K OF PR O VE RBS .
7
To be of no church is dangerous ,
.
( Johnston ) .
A stitch in time saves nine ,

.
( Franklin ) .
As chaste as unsunned snow .

( Shakespeare ) .
A long kiss a kiss of youth and love

,
.
( Byron ) .
B e your own lawyer as much as poss i ble ,

s tud y c om
m e r ci a l law .
Choo se your associates ve rv discreetly .
The tru est wisdom is a resolute determination ,

.
( Bon
aparte ) .
All the women who have been d isappointed in love are ,
not O l d maids ; many of them are married .
It is said that a cheerful woman wi t h a happy expres

” ,
sion and man n er ; loo ks younger than he r age .
I f a woman wants a real w el eo r e when she returns

home she shoul d leave her baby with he r husband when
, ,
she goes away .
They are never alone w ho a

r
e ac co m pan i ed with noble
thoughts ( Sidney )
. .
Little minds are too m uch wounded by '

little things ;
great minds see all and are n ot hurt ,
.
Talent of success is n othing more or less than doin g

what you ca n do well without a thought o f fam e ( Long
.
fellow ) .
Plants stars tr e es and everything are m ade di fferent

, ,
t o g1 v e variety hence t he food f o r a human family should

_
, , ,
consist of a variety .
BOO K OF P ROVE RBS .
Speaking ill of an individual is the same as kicking at
a dead lion .
O ur patience will achieve more than our force .

( Ru s
A reputation for good j udgement fair dealing and for , ,
truth is a fortune ( Johnston )

,
. .
P repared food prepared sermons and prepared music

, ,
in a s ense of use are as the moon compared to the sun

,
.
There are many people t oo stingy to buy whisk ey to ,
get on a drunk .
Pointed nails are like pointed thoughts they dri v e ,
easily into the block ; sharp thoughts drive easily into the
blockhead .
Trolley lines do more to harm onize than all other ,
m ediums p ut together .
All things are possib l e to diligence and skill .

( Johns
The devil n ever fights in his own uni form ;
In brightening children large congregation s and large

,
school s a r e much better than s m aller ones it gives a better ,
O pportunity for the magnetic powers to act

, .
Example is the school of mankind .

( Burke ) .
N ature teaches us to love our friends ; religion

teaches us to love our enemies .
The most beautiful wom an may n ot be the most virtu

ous ; the bird having the most beauti ful plumage may not ,
be the sweetest s o ngster .

40 B O O K OF PROVE RBS
Health is very touchy disobey one of its command s ,
an d o ff it goes
,
.
It is kindness that makes life pleasant and w o rth living ,

.
Every great soul is touched with a passion of hum a n it v .
Dog fleas will n ot stay on a ea t ; an old toper will not

stay in church .
The fine art of livin g is to draw from each person

, ,
his best ( Whitin g )

.
Little by little the tiny coral builds the reef that wreck s
the great ship ; small sins little by littl e wreck the strongest , ,
mind s .
Silence yours el f and you silence your worst en emy,

.
It is n ot w hat we see but what we remember that de , ,
v e l op s ou r hi en t a l powers .
In L apl a nd the girl gets o n e third of the r ace i n t he

sta t
r and i f overtaken by the lover it means matrimon y
, .
hence few bad matches in Lapland

, .
Church and state must go hand

, , in hand both free
, ,
but mutually dependent .
The best friend a girl can have is a level headed ,

-
,
loving mother .
A beautiful day is indicated by the settin g sun ; a beau

t i ful resurrecti on is indicated by the setting sun of our
,
earthly day .
A good woman married to a bad man makes a dis ,
cord ; even so 1n m U S IC a good hym n married to a bad tune , , ,
makes d l S CO l d ‘
.
The average voter is a slave ,

to a bad political party ,
.
Too much ambition in men and too much v anity in ,
women leadeth them into snares

,
.
To be happy you must study the natural laws in as ,
much as they are laws of God and without understandin g ,
and O bserving them w e cannot be happy .
The smallest flowers are the forerunners o f the lovely

,
spring .
Religionillu minates a man s face sweetens his words ’

, ,
and elevates every action of his life .
I f you want to have good health keep your back esp e , ,
ci a l l y between your shoulder blades well covered , .
C ivilization and the hon ey bee go hand in hand , .
The Unit ed is calling for a better class of voters .
For the safety and perpetuation of a nation a pure ,
ballot box is much better than warships and bullets , .
Business first then pleasures

, .
Better be unpopular and pure in your vote than , p op u

lar and impure .
Love is l ike cobl e r ’

s wax the more you meddle with it
, ,
the more it will stick .
Unthinkin g obedience forms the deepest habit in

, ou r
nature .
For conj ugality in matrimony w e consult the animal ,
ki ngdom our institutions should teach this most important

,
O f a l l kn owledge
‘
.
U sefulness is the rent we owe to the earth ; many p eo

ple are greatly in arrears and may lose their birthright at
,
the last great d a y .
High aim and a failure is not crime ; a low aim and

, ,
a failure is a crime
,
.
If vo u run t oo fast in anything you are sure to stumble .
The lo ver O ft
’
shuts his eyes and tells himself lies , .
Love is better to show and beautify th a n spectacles , .
Riches without content ment are more of a curse than a ,
blessin g .
What man has done man can do again , .
s tick to it i f you have a good business

, .
G re a t success ,
18 someth i ng that few can stand .
Be temperate work and do good to all men and you

, ,
w ill be a success in li fe .
Brain s s eek their equal the same as water , .
Forbear resenting inj uries avoid extremes ( Burke ) , . .
Marrying fo r wealth is selling one s liberty ’

, .
O f tw o evils chose neither

, .
Prudence is the index to success .
God has laws so deep and mysterious that they are ,
entirely hidden from man .
Anything to which God may call us is a high calling , .

The capitol at Hartford Conn is 3 00 feet long in the ,

.
,
summer and is three inches shorter in the winter E xp a n

,
.
sion and contraction causes it .
Plow dee p while the sl ugga rd sleeps and you shall ,
have corn to sell and to keep ( Cotton )

,
. .
By erosion ( as it goes on ) in ,
years all the ,
earth and seas wo uld be made level

,
.
Take all parts of the earth and we find ,

two earth
quakes a day some mild and some powerful
,
.
The weight of the sun is on e half that of water .
Glaciers to ,
feet deep run six feet a ,
d av .
running into the ocean and forming icebergs .
In the walls o f Balbec there e t cn e , ar c ut s

,
69 fe et
long fifteen feet high and s eventeen f e ct wi e
,
l .
Inte g ration o f rocks is the same a s rr en o r y both have

,
'
to be watched o r they will pass ove i n t o the g r eat field o f

,
r
oblivion .
In T e r r a d e l f u eg o sheets o f light n i n g
, ar e passing near
"
ly all the ti m e hence it is called t he l a nd
, , of fire .
Gilded tombs do , w orn s en fold .

( H B Allshouse
.
) . .
’
Tis more blessed to give t ha n t o receive .
is t he great e st ri v e r o f every good and perfect

G od
gi ft and when in partnership w ith him y o u have a part

, .
ner that will n ot leave y o u stick .
In all the w or ks of the creation G o d does n o t S ho w ,
his omnipotence m o r e t ha n in the creation o f about the

same number o f m a les and fem ales .
44 BOO K O F P ROVE RBS .
Marry in haste and repent at leisure,

.
Happy is the courtship that is short ,

.
A man s best or his worst fortune is his wife

’
, ,
.
M eddle not with what you do,

n ot understand .
’
No good ever comes from minding other people s busi
ness .
To have a finger in the pie .
True love often uses shocking grammar .
What will M rs Grundy say ? .
Listen at the ke y hole and you will hear news that , ,
will brin g the bristles straight up on your head ,

.
What appear calamities ar e often sources of fortune .
Rats desert a sinking ship .
There a r e four kin n ms on earth Mineral Vegetable ;

, ,
Animal and Human

, .
It takes sixteen years to make one day , on the planet

Neptune .
The kingdom of Greece sank twenty feet since the ,
days of Christ .
T
’
o speak of a man s faults behind his back is very ,
cowardly better tell him of his faults and trust to God for
, ,
the results .
You cannot hunt partridges with a band of m u sic ;

110 1 5 62 i n the wrong place turns success into failure .
BO O K OF PR O VE RBS . 45
Put cotton in your ears and you cannot hear ; put tobacco
,
in your mouth and you cannot taste .
May t he d e
vil cut the toes o ff all our enemies that ,
we
may know them by their limpin g .
The ring of a bell at a certain time in the day has a

, ,
v ery good eff ect ; it unifies the time of ev ery phase and ,
makes people better and more systematic

,
.
Go od words cost nothing and are worth much , .
Write inj uries in the d ust , but kindness on marble .
They hurt themselves who wrong others , .
Whatever is gi ven to the poor is laid up in heaven .
Charity commences at home but should , n ot end there .
God loveth a cheerful giver

i
As soon as the danger is past G od is forgotten .
I taught y o u to swim but , n o v y ou

. would drown
H e is a man every inch

, of hi m
Manners to a great extent make the

, , m an .
Beware present co m pany excepted

, .
There is a great force hidden in a sweet command .
I f all marriages are made in heaven I am sorry , to say ,

many belong to watered stock .
Marry your s on , when y ou will ; vour daughters ,

when you can .
For the very purpose t o get married you are requested ,
to leave father and mother ( Bibl e ) . .
Between the cradle and the grave there is no greater ,
step than matrimony .
The proper temperaments to suit vocations ,

a nd mat ri
m ony should be taught in school
,
.
In the same proportion that Sunday is kept sacred in ,
the same proportion people are civilized ,

.
Every child should be closely examined physically and

mentally touching the best vocations adapted for success
, ,
and happiness .
Persons w ho turn everything into ridicule to have a ,
coars e laugh shows unbounded ignoran ce

,
.
The i n tellectual laugh love laugh religious laugh

, , ,
w hite laugh an d hypocritical laugh all have their time and ,
p lac e
The expression of the face o f a shar p business man .
is the guide by which he handles his customers

,
.
Many people m ust be dead over a hundred years , be

fore their works begin to live .
Children should n ot have t oo m any playthings at a

time ; a man should n ot have t oo much money at a time .
Some sins paralyze the victim like the charming o f ,

'
a snake to give more time for the fatal fang to penetrate

,
deeper .
Some people are like a great flash of thunder and

lightning then the calmness then the funeral blank of
, ,
nothingness .
BO O K OF PROVE RB S .
The time of the planet is mathematically co r rect , but

all the surrounding powers are based on volition .
Promote your friend s happiness and quit your non’
, ,
sense in drinking his health ; use common sense .
Graphite is mined in Siberia from which we realize our ,
lead pencils .
The body of a cigarette smoker turns black how about

his soul ?
,
hal f more men go in the saloon doors than go in

O ne -
,
the church doors .
hal f more E nglish newspapers are read than all

O n e- ,
the other papers put together .
Temperanc e is the greatest curse reducer in t he world ,
hence eve r y true patriot votes straight against it i r r e s p e c ,
tive o f party .
’v ’
I f you want y o u com p l e x o n good keep the ventilation
,
of your sleeping room good .
To the extent that people favor an animal to the same ,
extent their m inds incline .
Death produced from a bullet wound is accompan i ed ,
by great pain from a sword wound composure

, , .
Saints are made in the school of service and su ff ering .
Peace is an inward spirit not an outward condition , .
Failures are often caused by ha Vi n g too much s ucc es s .
Stead fastness is a virtue that makes saints and s tates

, ,
men .
BO O K OF P ROVE RBS . 49
There is a rank of mind as well as of birth .
A stout heart has always a good cause to ba ck it .
Business ne glected is business lost , .
Dr i v e your busines s ; don t ’

l et your b usines s dri v e y ou .
I have another fish to fry .
As busy as a bee .
Sell not thy cons cience with thy go o s d .
It is hard to pay fo r a dea d h ors e .
He who bl a ckens
'
O ther s , doe s n ot w hit en hi ms el f .
As sure as a g un .
Always h ave your measuring line long enou gh i n t he

world to reach into the other world
,
.
General observations are the j ewels , of kn owled ge .
Creditors have a better memory than debtors ( Fra nk , .
Bashfulness is as much to be a v oided as , t oo much as

surance .
To die well , on e must learn to live well .

( Co nf u ci u s ) .
A ship load of argument don t amount to as m uch ,

’
as
a single fact .
Man i s kin g in his own h ou s e .
Your blin ded by bei ng too gr eed y

‘
"
e y e s a re .
50 BO OK OF PRO V E RB S
‘
Egy pt is the land that brought obelisks m onumen t s ,
and pyramids to the best degree of perf ection .
Donke ys like to h e ar their own voice .
In a healthy person the hal f O f the electricity in t he

,
body is positive and the other half negative hence an

, ,
eq uilibrium .
No part of natur e has pow er to develop in and of

, ,
itse l f ; all power is from God .
The number of males and females is about the same ; ,
a plain fact that the design of the creator is for every m a l e ,
to have a female and e v ery fem a le t o ha v e a mal e

,
. .
I f you can con q uer , an d you have persev e ranc e

’
, y ou
will con q uer .
Good works cannot emanate from the depraved neither

«
,
ca n light a nd darkness exis t t ogether .
Gossip does not a ff ect a pure conscience .
A tale ne v er loses in the telling .
Good patriots are always good Christians .
Hereditary drunkenness ten to one emanates from , , t he

m other s side
’
.
Natural water runs o u t of the rock unnatural wat er ,
m u s t be pumped ; even so in men some are natural and ,
s ome are unnatural fo ols .
God marked Cain for killing Abel ; G od als o marked , ,
the candy eater with a m outhful of rotten teeth .
Patriotis m: is love enthusi a sm courage and usefulnes s

, , .
BO O K OF P RO VERBS . 51
Po verty and necessity are the great schools for

,
i n v en
tion and develop m ent .
The best life pres erver is -

a daily occupation at some
thin g useful .
Beware of thes e t hree kinds O f women ; the one that

does not love children ; the on e w ho does not lo ve flm e rs ,
a n d t he one w ho doe s n o: lo v e women .
I
Pompeii had barber shops when destroyed ,
A D .
7 9,
hence the index to civilization .
The S abbath day is the keyno te of the proper use of
The man w ho is ashamed to we ar overal ls is unworthy ,
to wear broadcloth .
It is the quiet people that are dange ou s

,
r
.
A little man often harbors a great soul .
Catch the bear before y o u sell the skin .
Poor people can live peaceably together in on e house ;

two kings cannot live peaceably together in the s ame king
d om .
The poor man seeks fo r food : t he r ich man for appc
The man that does n ot blush ,

ha s the brutish nature
predominating .
In peace prepare
,
fo r w a r .
When all m en say that you are a mule get your kick ,
ing qualities into shape .

52 BOOK OF P O V E RBS
R .
An e r r or grace fully ackn o wledged is

“
, a victory won .
Temperance an d labor , are the two bes t physician s to .
men ( Rossea u )
. .
P r osperity doth best discover vice ; adversity doth be s t

discover virtue .
ur primitive advantages pr operly cu l tivated are the

O , ,
true index to civil i zation ;
By the very constitution of our own nature moral , ev il

has its o w n curse .
The small letters hurt the sight so do small matters , ,
hi m that is too much intent on them .
Despise n ot the day of small things .
The surest plan not to fail is the determination not to ,
Everything that happens G o d runs through all of it ;

,
n othing can exist without a cause .
Industry is prosperity s right ’

h and .
Knowledge is the wing to heaven : ignorance is God s

, ,
’
curse .
Until men have learned industry economy , an d self

control they cannot be safely trusted with
, wealth .
( B riggs ) .
I f a man is sure he is ri ght he can t be too radical ’

.
A tree does not fall a t t he first stroke .
A man apt to promise apt to forget , .

BO O K O F PR O VER BS . 531
A boy is like a willow when young is easily bent ;

, ,
but when old he is stubborn .
You must tie a m i s chi e veous cur sho rt ; you must tie
a mischievious boy short .
'
H e l o st all by wanting too much .
The m i ser and the fat pig are alike ; they

, ,
a re no good
u ntil the y are dead .
Hair splittin g ,
is very unpopular in religion or any ,
thin g else .
Beauty draws more than ten horses ; beauty an d mag

n et i s m travel on the same wire
,
.
Fair faces need no paint ,

.
Folly and beauty are often close ,

c o m p a nion s .
Great beauty and good unders t anding rarely go to

, ,
gether .
Beauty is a good intr oduction lon g a s it don t talk ’

'
, as
too much ,
It is a mistake that capi t al alone is necessary to

,
su c
cess ; head and hands will soon procu re wealth .
Begin to save early in life let it be ever so little

, . .
A man of honor respects hi s word as he does his note

, .
Shun law suits and never take any money risks which
, ,
you can avo rd .
When w e have On e fact found us we are a p t to supply ,
the next out of your o wn imagination ( Holmes ) . .

I dle hours are always very dangerous they can make ,
us very good or very bad ,

.
Great di fficulties overcome only show how great ,

we
are and how great w e can be
,
.
The greatest book of useful thoughts is the book of ,
maxims .
Whisky prepares a man to butcher his wife murder ,
his children and then put the knife to his own throat
,
.
live for others develops

T o t he fullest happiness for
this life and for the life to come
,
.
I f you can t bring sunshin e in your religion people

’
,
don t want it
’
.
+
The mea ning to a life is action in all your operations
,
.
Runn i ng t o m eet trouble multiplies it ten fold

, .
3
Prayer should be at regular intervals in a well regu ,
lated family .
The greatest barrier to spiritual prayer is a proud and ,
unsurrendered heart .
O
the hil l tops the valleys look the most beautiful ;
n
in the valley of oppression the beauties of a high and pure ,
li fe S how the most beautiful .
The greatest conquerer is true courage in every under ,
tak i ng .
Jesus lived a stormy life th at he might be a brother to ,
the workman .
Pride , a l w a vs goes before a fall

56 BO O K OF PR O VE RBS .
There is not any part o f any creature in col o r , , , or
shape but what is made an index to its charact er

,
.
Evil communicati on s corrupt good ma nne rs .

( Bibl e ) .
I t matter s not how lon g we live but ,

how .
( aily )
B .
Religion bri g hten s t he soul ; pleas u re s rust t he s ou l .
T he sou l n eve r g r o ws old .

( L on g f e l l o w ) .
T he d e v i l ha s th r e e prongs on h i s satanic fo rk ; t he
chu r ch ha s three pron g s to h e r s piritual fork Fa the r S on
‘
, , ,
a n d Holy G h os t .
Don ’
t h id e y ou r l i g ht und e r a b us h e l .
T he limb s t hat hang the l owest ha v e , t he mos t a ppl es .
H umanity gain s more friends th a n pride .
T he groves were G od s first tem ples ’ “
" M an
;
p ropos e s ; God disposes .
Ba d n e ws ,
i s t he first to come .
H e that tells his wife all his news ,

is lately m a r ri e d .
By n ight an infidel is a hal f believer

, , .
Beauty vanishes ; virtue remains fore v er .
H ow remarkably goodness brighten s b ea uty

, .
T he cobbler ,
st icks to his l a s t .
The merchant w ho se lls upon cr e dit , ha s m uch cu s om ,

t
but littl e mon ey .
BOOK O F PRO VE RRS . 57
Wo od ashes is the best tooth powder on earth ; it adds

health to the teeth .
From a single bone the Archaeologist constructs a per

,
feet creature .
—
'
Every woman that marries puts her self in line with ,
reformer s .
A ga l lon o f water weighs ten pounds . A gallon of

m ercury weighs I 3 57 pounds
,
.
Wide glancing eyes distrustful ,

.
In the construction of publ ic road s we , are sti l l lingering

in the dark ages .
Robert Morris the best financier in America died in

, ,
poverty and in prison .
Upturned eyes , a re a sign of devotion .
Wide open eyes ; rashness .
Small eyes cunning ,

.
In hunting as in love y ou begin when you like and

, , ,
leave O ff when you can ( Spanish ) . .
W ho says he loves and is not wretched lies

, ,
.
( Baily ) .
Sabbath keeping prepares us ,

for week day living
-
.
The only way y o u can live a second life is t o live the ,
first s o that its memories will linger when y o u are dead .
Many people step on sharp prongs of temptation and ,
l i mp the remaining days o f their life .
Coming events cast their shadows before .

BO O K OF PRO VE BBS .
A single profane word betrays a man s ,

’
l ow breeding .
( Joseph Cook ) .
Whatever y o u dislike in another person correct the ,
same fault in yoursel f .
Kindness has converted more sinners than eloq uence

, .
zeal and learn i ng .
People doing the right thing in a short time like , to do

the right thing all the time .
Christianity makes people gentle and easily controlled , .
Never contract a close friendship with a woman who ,
is not better than yourself ( Confucius ) . .
A quiet friend is better than a zealous

, on e , who is
noisy .
/
Cheerful ness is the atmosphere that is like the spring ,
shower to veg i t a t i on
Conscience is the voice of the soul ; the passions are

the voice o f the bO ( l \
Small bo ats should keep near the shore large ones can ,
venture more ( Franklin )

. .
The best bank is the one that , p laces money where it

does the most good .
Every one has his ow n gait ; every one has his ow n
accent .
’
We should conform our v ocation with nature s motion .
Loose thinking leads to loose character .
G od help the poor . T he rich can help themselves .

BOOK O F PRO V E R BS . 59
The declaration o f the pilgr i ms before they set foot on ,
American soil w a s that the s chool house and church sho uld
,
g o hand in hand .
Every man has hi s faults .
L et him that is without sin cast the fi r st stone ( Bible )

,
. .
They w ho live in gla s s houses shoul d ,

n ot throw stones .
Adam mu s t ha v e an Eve to blame . for all his faults .
’
Whipping a man over a nother s shoulders .
‘
It is a good hors e that never stumbles it is a good wi fe ,
that never g rumbles .
H ungry as a church m ouse .
Without a friend the world is a wildernes s

, .
Love rules kingdoms without the sword , .
A pack of cards is the devil s prayer book ’

.
Wh a t shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world

and lose his o w n soul ?( Bible )
,
A prophet is n o t without honor save in his o wn country ,
and in his o w n household .
The highest tree has the greatest fall .
I f the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch
, .
J oy and sorrow are next door neighbors

, .
He w ho dies in the vigor of life dies the b est

, .
All the remedies and preventions will , n ot stop death .

Nature never says that which Wisdom will contra ,
dict ( Juvenile )
. .
The desire to resist oppression is planted in every , man .
( Lucretius ) .
—
1 o
Trust n ot , t oo much an enchanting face
,
.
( Virgile ) .
As happy as a sunflower ,
Anything in your physical fram e that don t hurt leave ,

’
it alo n e .
Blessed is the m a n w ho walketh n ot in the cou n c i l o f

the ungodly who is delighted in the law o f the Lor d
,
.
( Bibl e ) .
Great moral worth emanates from great mental con e en

t r a t i on s and perseverance .
We should not be impatie n t o f our progress in life , al
though dar kn e s s a n d o s co u r a g e m e n t m a v s u rro u n d u s

=
.
The graveyard is a city that keeps on growi n g

, , y ear
after year no panics ,
.
We have no more right t o say unkind words abo u t o ur
neighbors than we have a right to steal their apples

,
and
peaches ; both are stealing .
The most beautiful life to live is to live always in touch ,
with the laws of nature .
The less you care for men s opinions the more they ’
,
care f o r yours .
Get in touch with the meanest men and there you find ,
traits o f character that are better than your own .
Never cross a bridge before , y ou come to it .

The m i nd unoccupied develops evil spirits more and , ,
more day by day

,
.
N 0 part o f nature has power to develop motion in and

of itself ; all power comes from G o d .
A p itcher that of goes to the well is broken at last

’
t , .
Be sure that you try the ice before you venture on it ,

.
Keep the common r oad then you are safe , .
O ounce
ne of mirth is worth a thou s and weight
,
of
melancholy .
Death is the greate s t leveller . It is the all in all uni , ,
Y oung men may die O ld men must ,

d ie
The grave level s all distinction s they that live longes t ,
must die at a s t .
Do not speak ill of the dead .
The fi rst breath is the beginning of death .
Whom the gods love die young , .
S ix feet of earth makes all men equal

, .
O h , how soon the dead a re forgotten "

A n hour may destroy what an age was building , .
I t is much better to die young and honorable than to ,
live an age of dishonor .
H e carries two faces under ,

on e hood .
Procrastination is the thief of time

,
.
A man s char acter ’
, on all sides should be square

, .
When y o u know n ot what to d o, wait .
Your second thoughts are the best , .
Think much speak little and write less

, , .
It is easier t o suppress the first desire than to satis fy ,
all that may follow .
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little ,
If wishes wou l d be true farmers would be kings

, .
He is a very hard nut to crack .
What a da y may bring a day may take away

, .
N o on e knows what may happen before the sun goes ,
down .
We ought to watch well that which we can only once

d ecide .
The faster rivers flo w the purer the water the faster

, , ,
vo u move in the a ff airs o f life the purer your life , .
O ur forefathers termed geology freaks , of nature .
A man of words and ,

n ot o f deeds is like a garden full
,
of weeds .
Tmake laws complete they should reward us as well

O , ,
as punish .
T o err is human ,
to forgive is divine ( Pope ) . .
Speaking t oo much is a sign of van ity .

64 BOOK OF P ROVERBS .
Never hold a man by the hand t o hear the end of a

story I f he don t want to stay better hold your tongue
.
’
,
.
Did y ou ever hear o f a person family or Church that

?
, ,
could hold whiskey and Christ in the sa me place
The widow has to pay her taxes but on account of her ,

’
s ex she can t vote A s hame . .
Ta ste and reason are very small but the the orga ns of ,
s ight and hearing are very acute in the North A merican
I ndian .
1'
Don t apply law to anything that morality can a ecom

’
A wretched soul ,
bruised with adversity .
( Shake
speare ) .
coughing and expectorating are not permit

S n e ezm g,
‘
ted in decent society .
Never call across the street ; never carry on a conversa

t i on in a publ i c veh i cle unless you are seated side by side
, .
Brown eye s are t he strongest .
N O t hi n g in nature s laws that don t add to man s hap

’ ’ ’
p i n e s s if pro p erly utili z ed .
The sovereignty of the Creator is equally proportioned ,
in all his works .
An unborn child has no knowledge o f the life on earth ;

neither has a man any knowledge of the life in the next
w orld .
A church steeple that don t vibrate is not right un ’

, ,
s afe A stolid and rigid man that don t bend is not right ’
.
, , ,
unsafe .
B OOK O F PRO V E RBS . 65
W hen I
a child I spake as a child and I thought
wa s , ,
a s a child ; but when I became a man I put away childish

‘
things ( Saint Paul )

. .
I will sing a new song unto thee , O God .

( Psalms ) .
It is very rare that y o u find very strong love without ,
j ealousy
It wa s the s till small voice that br ought the, ,

a nswer .
( Bible ) .
The ea r th being so full o f wealth notwithstanding it

, ,
is very hard to get enough o f it t o keep the wolf from t he

door .
Gold enlarges the vision of fools the same a s the micro ,
scope enlar g e s the vision of the scienti sts .
The white u n d efil e d m ind of a child is like the rich soil

, ,
in your garden both are the subj ects of very care ful plant
— - -
ing o f the first s eeds

, .
Young man go we st , .
( H orace G reely ) .
I pity the man that drinks w hen the dem on o f thirst ,
is in his throat a n d every drop of blood in his body is call

,
ing for rum rum rum , , .
The church and all the powers inve sted in man should
, ,
use all exert i ons to remove intoxicants fr om the unperverted

appetites .
G have d
pity on the slave o f a perverted appetite and
o
show h i m the blessing o f temperance and the curse o f i n ,
t e mpe ra nce .
It is said that a l l d i s e a s e s originate from g erm s The

’
germs that produce love sickness are n ot yet classified and -

,
placed i n the list .

66 BOOK OF PROVE RBS .
Sound m oral training is the surest pledge

, , o f good
citizenship .
Your character is estimated the same as those with ,
whom you associate .
A little assistance is worth a l ot of advice .
He w ho slanders another smites himself , .
The best praise of a s ermon is its practice , .
Boiling anger scalds nobody but yoursel f , ,
Friends multiply both j oys and griefs .
Nothing blisters your character more than reading bad ,
literature .
J O Y
, W hi Ch W 6 c annot enj oy with others is only hal f ,
a Joy .
Maxims , are condensed good sense , of all nations and
Should grace be said at the t a bl e, a t t en t i on and rever

'
ence should be t he order .
Shabby gentility is one , of the most O bj ectionable forms

of snobbishness .
A sheet o f paper is O f little value ; value is developed

by the matter that is placed upon it .
Crude steel is n ot high in price , the dexterity of the

machinery on it makes the high price ; knowledge through
,
schooling makes a man valuable .
Nearly all failures are based on the fact that he missed

,
his proper calling .

BOOK O F PROV E R BS . 67
Cult i vate some art by which ,

to gain an independent
l ivlihood .
( H on Horace Mann )
. .
Leave well enough alone .
"
There is much more good in people than bad and if , we

look f or the go od in people we overlook the bad , .
Be patient with the i n fi r m i t i es of your neighbor ; j udge

people by their merits .
Sweet songs are sung in sorrow : sorrow looks up and

o
j y looks down
Some men have wheel s in the i r heads all they need i s ,
t o start them r unning in the right direction and in the right ,
vocation .
D put a girl having natural musical talent in the

o n ot , ,
grocery store .
As blind as a bat .
Poverty shows whom our friend s are .
Poverty is no sin but is very inconvenient .
I t is no sin to be poor .
We ha i e the poor always with

r us .
N ever cry , hello ,

until y ou are ou t o f the w ood s .
B eware o f the man o f on e book .
The p oor man seeks f o r food ; the rich man for a p pe e
T he ma n that blushes t he mo st ha s the least brute in

The more a Christian surrenders to G od , the more

power he gets from God .
T he laws of gravity gives draught t o the chimney ,
which is on e of the blessings o f earth where women are ,
sensitive .
Maxi m s do more in convincing than long arguments ; ,
sheet lightning don t set a house on fire forked lightning

’
will set fire t o anything that burns .
A roller that runs fast don t break the clods as well as

,
’
one t hat r u n s s l o w e r ; the same in a tongue when it runs ,
fast it don t carry much weight

’
.
Knowledge i s power if placed in the right direction

, ,
but when placed in the wrong direction it brings destruction ,
mentally physically and spiritually

, .
Be sure you are right then go a head ( David Crocket )

, . .
To be d i s s a t i s fi e d , means only a selfish and complaining

spirit .
Curiosity is the most fatal element in the line of te mp t a

tion especially t o the young ladies
, .
Ability develops responsibility ; ability is abused when

n ot used .
SO
many people are Christians but not Jesus Christians , .
Chinaman )
Nature W i ll not always smile on you but she will turn ,
her heels and let fly to teach you that you cannot sail on
,
flowery beds of eas e
All in a nut shell ; how is it when filled with vermin a n d

?
decay Even so in man when filled with vermin and decay ,
and the shell being all right .

70 BOOK OF P ROVERBS .
Night never overtakes those who travel in the S pi ri

tual light .
As poor as church mous e

'
:
As poor as Job .
’
Ki l l t w o birds with stone

‘
on e .
Pruden ce i s ,
the p a r e n t of succe s s .
Always be on the s afe s ide .
I f possible have two strings to your bow

,
.
B eware of l ittle expenses ; small leaks may sin k a great
Saving i s a greater art than gaining

,
.
i
’
A fin e ca g e will not feed the bird .
A good man will as soon run into ,

a fi re as into a q uar
,
~
“
No ,
”
The mob has many head s but lacks brains
and yes ,
,
develop m a ny mighty
'
war s
.
H e who is well satis fi ed is well paid .
R evenge i s sweet .
W ealth con q uered Rome after Rome had conquered ,
the world .
’
Fortune knocks once at every man s door .
The north of Ireland develops the most manly o rgan

i zed people on the face of the earth
,
.
B OOK OF P ROVE RBS
’
71
'
The best rule of i zo r a l conduct next , to G od , is respect

to time .
Bad money always comes back .
What the eyes a re to the bO Cl V ’
earth is to the soul .
The torrid and frigid zones have the poorest organ

, ,
i zed people on the face o f the earth

, .
A good knowledge of the bible is the best all around

,
-
education on earth .
The gu ide to right is the unperverted reason and

, , c on
science .
'
Habit is ten times nature .

( Wellington ) .
In all the a ction of life do not expect anything then , ,
vo u are n ot disappointed ( Ar temus Ward ) .
Wine is a m ocker strong d r ink is raging and whoso , ,
ever i s deceived thereby is n ot wise ( Bible ) , . .
Good tem per is an essential quality in all great manli ,
ness .
We must press on to perfection we can t drift there

,
’
.
We should cultivate a good temper should it be f o r ,
nothing else then the foundation o f a pleasant neighbor

, ,
and good citizen .
T o everything there is reason and a time ,

to every pur
pose .
( Bible ) .
L ove
s s o ftest words carry the fact in the most powe r
’
, ,
ful argument .
D nothing today that will repent of tomorrow

O , y u
o .
The man w ho talks very loud lacks refinem ent and ,
may lose his j ob .
Every day a certain amou nt

,
of uphill work is nece s sary
,
fo r happiness .
Building property for a beautiful home develops more ,
a ctual happi ness than the occupancy O f the s am e

,
Teaching and training children is the noblest , p ro f e s
s ion on the face of the earth

,
.
M emory is the distributary of the mind so it is ,

im p o s
s ible for a great mind to have a good memory .
A young man linking with great men is more s uccess

, ,
ful than facing the cold facts of li fe alone

,
.
To follow after success is dangerous ; it is sure to lead

to ruin .
Anything that mak es a human being happy is ,

n ot tri
My country t i s of thee ; sweet land of libert y

, .
From ten to fifteen years of age is the turning point in ,
boys and girls At this period they are going to show

.
,
t heir colors for future life

"
H e is a dude .
S he is a regular flirt .
h
C ome unto me all ye ends o f the earth and I will give
, ,
y ou rest .
A scolding wi fe and a smoky chimney are two bad , ,
companions .
BOO K OF P RO V E RBS . 73
Gains gotten by a lie will burn your fingers

, ,
.
The great bow to children as much as to lords

, ,
.
The setti n g hen gathers no feathers but she makes it

-
up in the bro od of nice little chicks .
The st one that rolls out of the q uarry is not a mos s ,
back but ever ready to support the mighty structure of

,
usefulness .
If vou work an d make one penny you are one p enny

richer .
Strike
,
the iron when it is hot ; young m an , strike when
vour blood is hot .
Be ashamed to die until you have gained some victory

, ,
for humanity .
Manners ,
a re orna ments of action .
( Smiles ) .
Failure is im possible if the right man is placed in

'
the right place .
A man that is good is the best thing in the world , . .
Anonymous )
Perfection is the fact that puts men in the highest ,
places .
Skilled in any art gives you prestige that nothing else ,
v
Vi l l give .
'
To help others is bread , c a s t u p on the waters .
He that l i s t en et h to lying vanities forsaketh his own ,
mercy .
Be swift to hear and slow to speak .

4 B O OK OF P ROVE RBS .
We should not neglect the people in the drawing room .
Slang is vulgar in all conversation .
Never interrupt the speech of anothe r .
Always adopt a pleasant mode of address .
Adapt your conversation to your company .
Proverbs are sharp pointed sayings . Mu ch thought

contain ed in a s m all amount o f reading .
‘
When y o u see the fla g m a n holding out the red flag ,
rest assured a train is coming The same in the old Bible

'
.
,
it is the red flag of the N ew Testament .
from the fi r St family through all time caus

R eligion , ,
ed the most discord in families and nations Whiskey .
comes the next in the list .
The ch urch that is forever figuring how to raise money

, ,
will n ot cut much of a figure in raising the w orld .
When G o d gave death as a blessing he will ,

n ot be any
less ungracious in any other gift .
No m a n can end with being superior who will not , be

gin by bein g inferior .
Great occasions make great men .

( Matthew ) .
Be noble and the nobleness that lies sleeping will rise ,
in maj esty to meet your own ( Lowell )

. .
will not commit a sin unless some point is uncover

Y ou
ed Just a t the wrong time the sheep will bleat and the
.
,
oxen bellow .
When j oy comes grief goes ;

,
we dont know ’
ho w
.
BO O K OF PR O V ER BS . 75
Po verty ,
trans formed into prosperity ,
ma kes the
mighty me n o f the earth .
Predicted i m p o s s ibi l it i e s , hi t che d to genius make the

'
world move .
P ropped b ridges O ften develope new ideas that , r e vo u l ~
t i on i z e bridge buildin g .
A yankee in the state of Maine watching a hornet

, ,
buildin g her nest from the wood material aroused hi s ,
genius to make paper out of wood which transformed ,
the manufacturing of paper over the whole world .
Necessit y is the mother of invention .

( O l d M ax i m ) .
Diligence is the swivel that can be turned t w o ways ,
it can be turned f or good or it can be turned for bad .
The bee t h at has the most s weet fo r the winter , was

the busiest bee f
“
L a zm e s s
is a sin it is the backbon e of a law civiliza
,
t i on ; i t breeds all manner o f vice and degradation .
The Bible has not on e good word ,

for the m an that
does not work .
It is a sad house where the hen crows the loudest .
ol d
’
B etter an man s d arling , than a young man s slave ’
.
An O ld batchelor is onl y the hal f

, of a pair of scissors .
Every new invention is a g rand temperance lecture .
The hostess should have ready w it , and a merry laugh .
Invitation to a dinner should be immediately rej ected or

a ccepted .
76 BOOK OF PROVE RBS .
Blessed are the poor in spirit for the i rs i s the King ,
d om of Heaven .
O ne may smile and smile and be a villain

, , .
Better late than never .
Defer not until tomorrow what can be done today , .
Necessity is a good teacher .
The cat in bo ots catches no mice .
Don t make your nose blush for the

’
sins of your
mouth .
Strike while the iron is hot .
Small brooks make the greatest noise .
Silence gives
consent
.
Be silent and pass for a phi l osopher .
The last drop makes t he c u p

l
run over .
Never grieve over spilt milk .
When a thing is done make the best of it , .
Envy never enriches any man .
Human blood is all one color .
Evil to him , w ho evil thinks .
Every age confutes old errors and begets new ones , .
Though you seem to get the best of whiskey it is sure ,
to
‘
get the best of you .

78 BO O K OF P ROVE RB S .
Neve r place waste matter on the table .
I f you are asked if you have no choice answer prom pt

, ,
Do not cut your bre ad break it ,

.
Do not pick your teeth or put your fi nger in your ,
mouth at the table

,
.
A l low others the privilege of talking on their merits .
A void a fault finding and s colding mann e r

, .
When a thing don t suit say so q uietly

’
,
.
A good h ousekeeper will also attend , ,

to her d a ily ac
counts .
m
We should i nterest oursel v es i n t he a mus em ent of ou r
,
servants .
The public schools are the g reatest ci v ili z e rs on ea rth .
Ne v er betray a con fi dence .
Do not borrow and neglect to pay .
A lady should avoid all hurry and bustle in travelin g , .
Cleanliness is the outwar d sign

, O f inward purity .
I t is a duty to always look pleased

~
No lady or gentleman will bite their finger nails

, , .
D not refuse to take the last piece of bread or cak e

O -
from the plat e .
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices .

Precious O intments are put in small boxes .
To leave on e in the lurch is ungentlemanly

, .
Good taste rej ects squeamish nicety ; it treats little

things as little things and is n ot hurt
, , .
The tyrant excus es his devilishness by his ow n acts .
O ur federal union must be preserved .

( Jackson ) .
To be prepared f or war is the most e ff ectual means of ,
preserving peace ( Washington ). .
Y ou can t knit and be angry

’
.
An invention will do more than dreamy years .

( Beech
Give me liberty or give me death .

( Pr
t
r ick Henry ) .
— ‘
You m a y beric h and pure but it will cost you a big ,
struggle .
( Beecher ) .
The com m on l a w itself ,

is nothing but reason .
While y o u 11 r
e, tell the truth a nd shame the devil .
( Shakespeare ) .
A great long beard don t make a philosopher

,
’
.
Never ask q uestions until your t i me comes .
A little bait catches large fish .
Curiosity aroused a bad disposition and the cat was ,
killed
.
What a blessing it would be i f , w e could throw all our

cares to the wind .
80 BOOK OF P RO V E RBS .
Dig,
not for metals where there are none ; don t plug after ’
talents that you have not .
A clearness and push in a vocation assures success

, , .
Mistakes in spelling are like stu bling horses up and

, m ,
down .
Keeps your tracks covered pass as you go , .

( Max i m ) .
Lookin g many times at a thing will teach you facts ,
that you never thought of .
To write a nice hand is an ,

t that stands as a climax
above all others .
I f we learn to valu e - h ute s we learn to appreci ate

,
etern ity .
Correct stone throwing made David king of Isreal ; ,
cultivate stone throwin g .
’
Conscience is reason s golden chain that developes more ,
to m a ke a man a man than all the schools and churches

, ,
are doing .
I f a man talks to you answer , hi m promptly do the

,
same i n your letters .
Roundabout ans wers are like anonymous letters das

, ,
ta r d l y, cowardly and mean

, .
S oft answers don t cost any more than gru ff ones and
’
,
are so much better .
Respectability
to children is a grand trait in favor of ,
nobility of character .
Pleasure is the oil of life ; business is the lever that

makes the world mo v e .
G E O RG E W AS H IN GT O N
Politeness is benevolent in small things ; e ven a dog

gets bread by wagging his tail .
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half ,
shut after .
Be not weary in well doing .
I f y ou save a rogue from the gallows he will rob you

the same night .
Cast bread upon the waters for thou shalt find it after ,
m any days .
Charity covereth a multit ude o f sins .
He who giveth to the poor lendeth ,

to the Lord .
( Bible )
.
None become poor by giving alms .
Liberal h a nds make many friends .
Never look a gift horse in the mouth .
Too much of a good thing is worse than none at all .
I f God is for us , w ho shall be against us .
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad , .
He certainly is a good man whom fortune makes bet
A hint fo r a gentleman ; a club for a fool .
He that marries for wealth sells his liberty , .
Never attempt to change the color of you r hair by

m eans of dyes .
82 BO O K OF P ROVE RBS .
In deep solitude o f the wilderness is the place to ,

re
c e i v e spiritual pro g ress God i s nearer it is vitalized

, , .
Sp read wide thy skirts when he aven is raining , g old .
( Proverb ) .
Penitence in the wildernes s ,

fit s peo ple to appreciat e
God in nature .
A reasonable use of intoxicating drink may a ppear all

right ; like a rattlesnake a fter its fangs are in t he fle sh it i s ,
all wrong .
aid ,
’
A wise student s greatest is to grow into m or a l
and spiritual beauty .
Every insect has its enemy ; e v ery human bein g ha s i t s

enemy .
’
B e re ady for death at all times t hen you can t be taken
,
’
by surpris e .
I f a man s spiritua l nature is blinded by anythin g he

’
,
is in a worse condition than a brute .
The more electricity in anything the more God power it ,
In the great throngs of the city behol d the immense ,
peculiarities in the physiognomies and read the great laws ,
of humanity .
Parties having the most animal nature are possessed ,
with the most magnetism .
Much education is buried in graveyards but no good ,
health is buried there .
Consci ence speaks all the time ; when you contem

p l a t e bad actions it is sure , to speak l oudes t .
84 BO O K OF P RO VE RBS .
Lop O ff branches to give a good chance to the tr ee to

,
develop the same in learning lop O ff the needless branche s

, , ,
and give t he child a chance to develop .
Enthusiasm is the mother ,

of greatne s s .
Reason is the life of law ; it

,
is the gr eat balan ce wheel .
Rul e rs must bey the law

o .
T O multiply law i s an index ,

to we a kn ess .
Grea t s everi ty o f law , p revents its execution .
Good law makes it easier to do right

, .
Genuine law is a large bundle of common

, s en s e .
Law is the standard of liberty , a nd its true guardian .
The cli mate that takes the least work to support life ,
the poorest for high cultivation .
He w ho fi ghts and runs away may li v e to fi ght som e

other day .
Let all thin g s be done decent l y and in order , ,
Cloudy days are m ore gloomy therefore sickness and ,
suicide are much more prolific ; hence it is essential to hav e

lots of sunlight for a healthy and cheerful home .
I n v ention s are the power of progress and are the ,

em a
nation O f plain people .
Good preparation s are the greatest essentials to future

,
success in all things .
The minister of the gospel stands on the highest ,
watch tower of all human callings .

BOO K O F P RO V E RBS . 85
’
O ne d run k
brought disgrace to Noah s family ; the
s ame philosophy holds good in man y other familie s .
The upper part of the forehead full at the corners , ,

is
a sign of good c ommon s ense mother wit ‘
, .
Study your body the same as your every d ay business ,
an d quit physic .
The whistle of the railroad engine ,

is her language ,
the same as man has hi s language .
The la gest pro portion o f young folks die between the

r
ages o f 1 8 and 2 2 from consumption transmitted by kiss

, ,
ing .
The average age of the prize fi ghter is n ot gre a t .
Wood trans formed into coal is fossilized wood ; a ,
bad man trans fo rmed into a good man is a S piritualized ,
man .
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse , .
John the Baptist was the forerunner of Chri s t . Every

thing has a forerunner .
The voice of nature is the voice

, of God .
P ri de wild ambition and sel fi shness make dangerous

, ,
companions .
The darkest night gives the brightest flash light f or

a picture even s o in man the darkest night o f trouble
, , ,
g ives the brightest spiritual flash .
All trees vegetables and insects if i n their right place

, , ,
minister to man .
Kindne ss is the v aluable part in a good business life , .

86 B O O K OF P ROVE RB S
Hogs ,
Indians ,
bears and drunkards like beer and
W hl S ke V .
The best protection against disease germs is to have ,
a healthy body .
The best way to fight sin is to have a healthy soul

, .
To develop happiness t o its fullest limit is to do the ,
m ost good and not know it .
meet persons w ho never have a kind thought or

Y ou ,
word for others because they are so much wrapped up i n

,
their ow n sel i sh n ess f .
A happy home has all the sweet blendings of humanity
family w a s ever very

N O happy , where on e of the
members acted as he pleased .
i ’
the di ff erent natures in minds w e often

Be ca u s e of ,
have to surrender our rights to keep harmony in the home ,

.
Bodily defects are never noticed by persons who have ,
t he right kind of breeding .
No individual w a s ever defeated who , ha d the right

determination to get to heaven .
In teaching children the town lines in the early history ,
of England they were taken to the town limit and there

, ,
given a good thrashin g .
To whip a child for mischief m akes such a vivid i m ,
pression that as long as they live it will be remembered

, ,
and a mild reproof would have answered .
O ne cannot always be a hero but he can always be ,
a man .
( Goethe ) .
BO O K OF PR O V ER BS . 7
A s rum goe s in religion goes out

,
.
( Sam Jones ) .
Act i ons from principles for doing good are as lasting

‘ ‘
, ,
as the ages of eternity .
Continuit y i s the greatest link

x
of popularity goodnes s
‘
and usefulness ;
I f a child say s bad words don t let the child know that ,
’
you hear it ; i f you correct it sharply it will make an impres ,
sion that will be life long .
There is more danger in people bel n g so v ery good ,
t hat they are good for nothing than being good and bad
alternately .
No one should be permitted to teach school unless he ,
has a sweet temper .
Avoid angry people the same ,

as a polecat .
H ome is made happy by loving and sweet dispositions

,
.
The blood does not circulate harmoniously in person s ,
have uneven tempers .
I f you want to live long keep a sweet , an d j oyful tem

per a t all times .
Heaven is lov e and sweetness all the time ; fiery and ,
angry temperaments are n ot permitted there .
Electrify a lecture or a sermon and it is a power

,
.
I f there was no magnetism in the solar system it would ,
The great danger in greed for wealth 1 8 that it will

crush out the spiritual sentiments and leave a barren castle ,
for all manner of wild beasts .

BOOK OF P RO VE RBS .
M ost things are easier to learn than to unlearn ,

. .
The stream of trouble is the stepping stone that pre

pares u s for a higher life and a greater reward , .
Great men are great n ot made so by riches or educa

,
tion hence we look to them as w e look at great animals

, ,
or great trees .
The hornet has two ends , on e is a business end which ,
must not be fooled with .
When you forget self then you are in good shape to ,
assist your neighbor .
In bus i ness character counts especially in the p ayment

, ,
of debts .
Eight hours o f sleep for a ma n , nine hours for a

woman and ten hours for a child .
The m a n who in a very good cause is a kicker is an

, ,
ugly drone under the wheels of progress .
Take care of the pence the pounds will take care of ,
themselves .
Leave o ff the j est when it is the merriest .
O ne link broken the whole chain is broken

, .
A small spark can make a great fire .
A short h o rse is soon curried .
It is a poor rule that will not work both ways .
To be killed with kindness is the easiest death , .
A merciful m an is merciful to his beast .

BOOK OF P RO VE RBS . 89
T oo much rest i s the most painful of anything ,

on
e a rth .
Great perseverance brin gs great success .
When y ou buy another farm you add another ,

r e s p on
s i bi l i t y to your over taxed mind -

.
Two ears to one tongue therefore hear twice as much

,
as you say
Saving is a greater art than gaining .
Unto the pure all things are pure

,
.
Cleanliness is next to godline s s .
It is better to dwell in the wildernes s than with a ,

con
t en t i ou s w oman
”
A ho use divided against itsel f cannot stand ,
.
Wh en two dogs strive for a bone a third run s , a wa y

with it
I have a crow to pick with
Deep rivers run slowly and in silence ; s hallow brooks

,
are noisy .
The worst wheel of a cart creaks most empty v essel s ,
m ake the most noise .
Every hill has its valley .
He robbed Peter to pay Paul .
The blood of the martyrs is the seed , of the church .
A Christian is the highest style of a gentleman .

90 B O O K OF P RO VE RBS .
The best a r t i fi ca l nose paint is lightning whiskey

, .
A brilliant and sharp mind is not reliable and not ,
deep ; not good for council .
Wisdom s ways are ways of pl easantness and all her

’
, ,
paths are peace ( Maxim ) . .
To work on the dark side for a season : When the

bright side appears you are schooled to appreciate it
, .
Nothing so contagious as example ,

.
You can walk further on a rolling road than on a l evel ,
road ; a life of ups and downs is better than a sm ooth one ,
for long li fe and happiness .
I f a man keeps his head for a hat rack he is not fit to ,
fight hornets .
The success of a church depends on t he spirituality

, ,
more than n the members ; the members are the cha ff spiri ,
t u a l i t y is t he vitality .
_ _ —0
I
Don t strike natu re straight in the face it will rebound ;
’
strike it oblique ; the same law holds good in all the a ff airs
of our existence .
Shooting over the tops of trees will not kill squirrels ,
preaching over the heads of the congregation will not kill ,
sm n ers .
Better for the United States i f one fourth les s books -
were in existence ; many of them are full a f deadly microbes

and dyspepsia .
Nine tenths of the fatalities of disease is from the f ear ,
that the symptoms mean death .
The only way to keep a secret is to , sa y nothin g .

A woman without religion is like a flower without ,
perfume .
The devil can cite scripture to suit his purpose ;
A good example is the best sermon

, .
Whatsoever a man soweth th a t shall he also reap

, .
Revenge is a ve ry expensive l uxury .
To forget a wrong is the best revenge .
He is not rich who is not satisfied .
P etty thieves are hange d ; people take o ff their hats

to great ones .
The devil gathers most souls in a golden net .
Fortune makes friends ; mis fortune tries them .
A man without money is like a ship without sails

, .
Show me a liar and I will show you a thief

, .
Cold is north and is positive ; heat is south and is

, ,
negative.
A co ntented mind is a continual feast

, .
Health is better than wealth .
More die of over eating of rich food than of f a mine , .
A good li fe keeps o ff wrinkles .
A man cannot serve two masters .
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue ( Cato ) . .

Speak well of your friends . About your enemies say

nothing .
A new broom sweeps well .
Never keep a d og , and do your own barking .
A man s houl d never be ashamed to o w n that he has

been in the wrong which is but sa y ing in other words that
, ,
he is wiser today than he was yesterday, .
Better little with honor than much with dishon or , .
"
Better an upright than a ,
f a l s e Ch r i s t a i n .
J
The man who minds his o w n business will always have

business to mind and what is more it will be his very ow n
, , .
To bu il d . ca s t l e s i n the air .
Excessive fatigue has done more to cause all manner

of sickness than any other known medium
, .
All the clouds are not full of rain .
In fair we ather prepare for foul weather .
It seems that whiskey and dogs ,

f o r 5000 years have
,
been synonyms as a public curse .
Holding ones nose to the grindstone .
Hieroglyphics demonstrate that the grey hound flour ,

-
i s he d 3 000 years B C .
Hornets never occupy the same nest the second time

‘
no o n e but fools are bitten by the same d o g more t han once .
Free use o f salt is the preventative o f diseases ,

it is
on e o f the best germ killers .
94 BO O K O F PR O V E R BS ’
A concealed spark is more to be feared than an , Op n e
Never trust to another what you s hould do yourself , .
Sel f con fi dence i s the first essential to human greatness .
He who i s ma ste r of hi m s el f w ill, s oon be ma ster o f

o th e r s
.
H e t h at return s goo d for evil , ob tain s t he victory .
H e who Cann ot Comm a nd him s el f ,

s hould n ot attempt to
(20m m a n d other s .
No conquest ,
is greater than self conque st .
The man who does a ki ndness for others to accompl i sh ,
his selfi s h ends is a v ill i an of the blacke st type

, .
A s sweet as h oney :
Seeing is believing .
A bird may be caught by a sna r e that w i ll not be shot ,

.
We often s often our troubles by tell i ng them to , ou r
g ood friends .
T he fewer our year s the fewer our tea rs , .
Rather S ympathize in other s ’

s orrow t han ,
t o r ej oi ce
in them .
W hen S o ro r w is a sleep d on t wake i t

,
’
up .
E q uality in di stres s ma kes sorr ow less , .
The man who troubles other s has lots , of trouble him

Neatness in moderation is a virtue but when it is , ca r

r 1 ed to excess it sh ows littleness of mind ( Fenton )
, . .
He that is unkind to his own household is unkind , to

others .
It is easy to be generous when you use other people s

,
’
money .
Give every man his due .
O ne never loses anything by true politeness .
In courtesy rather pay a pen ny too much than too

,
That which is not understood is always marv elous , .
Great wonders will never cease .
O ne tal e is good until another is told that is better

,
.
Mis fortune is a great teacher .
When a man i s down everybody runs over him

,
.
When a man is hi gh up in the world everybody looks ,
up to him .
S weet are the uses of adversity .
Modesty has more charms than beauty .
Take one a p eg lower .
An idle brain is the devil s workshop ’

.
Go into the country to hear the news of the town

,
.
Rest ’
is the sweetest thing after a good day s work .
BO OK OF P RO VE RBS . 97
Ifwould j udge the patriotism o f the countr y b y the

y o u
flags floating y o u would declare that it was th bar r o oms

,
e
that w on all t h e great battles In on e sens e this is true .

,
but they were the battle s f o r the devil .
P oison kills poison ; if y ou have heart ache take a n ,
0 1 her dose o f hea r t ach e i nto your c om p a n v and the t w o ,
heart a che r s will kill the heart ache the same as the Ki l ,
kenny cat s kill the evil S pirit s between them .
The femal e is n ot so l arge as the male the texture be ,
i ng s o m uch finer places her mentality equal with her big

, ,
.
c oarse brother .
Nati ons that d o not laugh commit suicide nations that ,
l augh d o n ot commit suicide hence t he Iri s hman does n ot

, ,
commit suicide he laugh s t o o muc h

, .
Headache is the s ame a s the s team guage on an engine -

,
both tell when t o quit piling on more fuel when the power
is right .
Educated musicians are about nine o u t o f ten failures

, ,
1n
p r o d u c m g sweet mus 1 c ; one reason t o o much m e cha n i ,
ca l the other t oo mu ch swelled he a d i s m

, , .
Y ou
’
can t learn to play chess by schooling you need ,
p r a c experience Practical experience does more to

t 1 c a l .
make a man than schooling .
M ake your life plainer your happiness will be much

,
greater .
I f any man thinketh himsel f religi ous and does not ,
bridle his tongue his religion 1 5 nothing but vanity

, .
The quiet person never wears ou t : he stands like the

q uiet hills .
To be right and victorious is a sign , of greatness .

98 B O O K OF PROVE RB S .
Strength of m 1n d is exercise not rest ,

-
.
A pearl is often hidden in an ugly shell , .

( China ) .
Talk at me and I resist ; talk to me and I may be ,
convinced ( German )
. .
A liar should have a good memory .

( English ) .
Nobody s sweetheart is ugly

’
.
( Dutch ) ,
A crow is no whiter after being washed .

( Scotc h ) .
Delays breed danger and are the cause of mor e wrecks

,
than any other medium .
Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you

_ ,
do you even so unto them .
O first failure w a s the rebu ff that aroused our

ur , en
ergy to fut ure success .
Nothing permanent comes sud denly ; the mushroom

grows in a night ; the same in men .
Courage and cheerfulness throw , o ff more disease than ,
all the medicine .
The best cure for dyspepsia is boil ed wheat ,

.
He who stumbles over the same stone des erves to ,
break his shins .
B e not hasty to outbid another .
A bad lock invites a picklock

, .
Evening red and morning gray ; a genial day

,
.
We can achieve more by gentle means than by violence ,

.
1 00 BOOK OF P ROVE RB S .
A small house well filled is better than an empty cas ,
bird may soar ever so high but it has to come to the

A ,
ground to seek food .
Many littles make a muckle .
Drop by d r op the lake is drained .
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump .
Little strokes fall great oaks .
A little p o t is soon hot .
Constant dropping wears the rock .
He who takes the child by the hand takes the mother ,
by the heart .
Good temper oils the wheels of life .
All great men are i nsome degree inspired .
Spending his father s money made him feel big

’
,
though he ended his days in the poor house His father s .

’
silver spoon did it .
A i
p g on the ice is independent until he falls ; a big
,
headed bo y is independent until he falls .
Judas betrayed the Savior with a kiss ; that innocent

girl w a s betrayed by a kiss .
It is not saying that a high life will land you on the

road to heaven .
All dogs should be mesmerised and buried by the

honors of war .
BOOK OF P ROVE RBS . 1 01
animal talked with the mouth n ow the same

Ba a l a m
’
s ,
s pecies talk with the heels ; ere long animal language w 1 l l
become extinct .
If want t o kill children on the 1n s t a l l m en t plan

y ou ,
keep on s ending them to school until they are a l l head and

no stomach .
By love w e cam e into the world and by love we must ,
go out o f the world if we expect to get t o heaven ,

.
Anger 1s the essence of all bad love is the essence

,
of
all goo d .
To encourage children to die prematurely have them ,
to sleep with o l d people .
In a sweet and loving courtship it so often occurs that ,
there is a fly in t h e honey .
Three fourths o f the earth s surfac e is n ot cultivated

-
’
.
Thr e e fourths o f a human being is n ot cultivated

-
.
A three corn ere d harrow is like a very sweet and l ov

-
ing courtship on e corner t o many For all around happi

, .
ness it takes t oo much watching .
pour oi l on the water in a sea storm is a blessi n g

T o , ,
.
T o put sweet oi l in a grumbler s mouth is the g r e f t e t

’
s
blessing .
The glad s weet and happy boy commands on e hal f

,
-
more wages than the grump sour natured and unhap py ,

-
,
boy .
A rich l y equipped m ind is the same as the r e s e r ve co p s .
is t o the general t o be brought t o the front doubl e qu ick

, , .
I f o u r pat ience were e qual with ou r impatience ,

how
much easier o u r li fe would be .
1 02 BOOK OF P ROVE RBS .
No thoro ughly occupied mind was ever , m 1 s e ra bl e .
He knows which side of his bread is buttered .
Beauty is the mark God s et on virtue , .
The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheer ,
f ulness ( M on t a og )
. .
To beard the lion i n his den .

( S cott ) .
Good children are like the ripest

, f r u 1t ; the good fall
Her voice w a s very low gentle and soft :

.
, An excellent
t rait in women .
Maxi ms are golden thoughts from , all sorts of people .
Two great stars are like ,

t w o great men they , no v er
t ravel in the same o rbit .
M onuments made of wax will not last

, , . A char a ct e r
gained by deception will n ot last .
Friends in early life will live while those in later life ,
will pass away .
G reat adventurers m ake great heroes , .
There is not any time in life when book s do not i ,

.
fl u-
e nce .
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bou n d ,
together .
The only w a y t obe a friend is to be a tru e friend

,
.
Bless the L ord oh my soul and forget not all

, , ,
hi s
benefits ( Psalms 1 03
.
BOOK OF P RO VE RBS .
Nature harmonized makes maxims ,

of a high order .
The water that has passed the flood gates will -

,
n ot turn
the mill stone .
M ental thought wasted will never turn the world

, .
The hot winds o f the African desert are blighting the ,
ho t breath of the drunkard i s blighting .
S avageness
badne s s and goodness are so neatly blen
, ,
ded that it is di fficult t o tell the good from the bad .
To be many times disappointed in a good cause is n o ,
sign of weakness but a grand preparation to apprec1 ate suc

,
cess when it comes .
The great soul makes ha rmony and music out of all , ,
the surroundings .
’
need to stu dy Greek and Hebrew to under
Y ou d on t
‘
,
stan d the ten comma ndments ; even so in beer and whisky ,
the observance of both is plain .
Friendship is the most pleasant o f all things and noth ,
ing gladdens the heart of man more .
Very few persons w ho

don t leave a monument of some
,
’
kind of cursedness when they die , .
Nothin g is more conta gi ous on earth than immorality ,

.
Ye
'
shall drink no wine neither you nor your sons for

, ,
e v er .
( Jeremiah 35 ,
Woe to them that rise up early in the morning that ,
they may follow strong drink ( Scripture ) . .
Christ was a public benefactor . Judas wa s a public

malefactor .
W IL L IA M M KIN L E Y
’
Nature is but an e ffect , f rom a caus e whose name is
Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next

, .
( Y oung ) .
Cooking of a good dumpling is of greater considera ,
tion than the building of a college

,
.
Courts and camps are the only places in which the

,
world is learned .
The man who does his duty in this world is never ,
discontented .
He that pitieth the poor l endeth , to the Lord .
I f I would read as much as you do ,

I would know as
little ( Spencer )
. .
The m who avo i ds the temptation avoids the sin

a
n , .
Nature makes no mistakes , g uessing at nothing .
Every tide has an ebb

, .
They who m ake the best us e of time have none to spar e , .
Time enough is little enough

, .
Take time by the forel ock .
All things are devoured by time .
Time lost is never found again .
The best couns ellor is time .
Sail while the wind blows ari ght ; wind and tide wait
for no man ,
Wolves may lose their teeth but ,

n ot their nature .
When men run to extremity then is God s opportunit y

,
’
.
None can pray well but those who pay well , .
T he cross
antedates Christ hundreds o f years : it r e p r e
,
sents the f 0ur cardinal points o f the compass north south , , ,
east and west

,
.
Joan of Arc w ho could neither read nor write in all

, ,
things had spiritual guidance .
M uch reading flattens the mind and destroys it for ,
greatness .
It is di fficult to grow old evenly and gracefully .
Confucius w ho in boyhood , was very poor had a wife ,
of grea t beauty .
W j udge peop l eby the way they talk about God

'
e .
Indolence is the dry rot

,
of t he mind .
Motion brings matter into form .
species of animals are extinct

, .
( Lyal ) .
Health is the basis of all social virtue .
Health preserved is morality and religion s,
Cheerfulness is the sunshine of the soul .
True law is right reason and common sens e , .
Lavish thousands of
dollars on your baby clothes and ,
after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid

aside .
1 08 B O O K OF PRO VE RBS .
Never j udge unfinished work .
Great men are those w ho are not afraid to think great

thoughts and do great things
,
.
Salvation is the j oy of the good man ; sin i s the enj oy

ment of the bad man .
Love means patience , sympathy ,

sweet temper and
humility .
~
When t he right fellowship prevails the rich and poor ,
ar e equal in all enj oyments .
must be pressed to make it good ; people

S o u r kr o ut
must be oppressed to make them good .
Capacity for hating is as necessary as for loving ;

, ha
ting evil as well as loving good .
A fac e that has the expression of putty lacks grit , .
The time octogenari ans are prominent is at the time of ,
their death and when the will is to be read

,
.
The w orld needs cheer more than anything else ; we

should talk cheerfully to everyone .
Inordinate selfconceit blinds the strongest mind

,
.
A few men of the right kind are better than , half

hearted ones .
Be not like the young woman w ho called a dozen of her,
friends to help her keep a secret ; it got out all the same .
He w ho drinks much thinks little ; he who thinks much ,
drinks little .
N othing is right unl ess it corresponds with rea s on

,
.
”
Hard workers are generally honest
, , .
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth ;,
while the evil days come not nor the years draw nigh when
, ,
“
thou shall say I have no pleasure in them ( O l d Testa
, .
ment ).
Sickness make s more christians than all preaching , .
Life is not altogether a j ar of honey .

( Fa r g i on ) .
The honest man is the noblest work of God .

( Pope ) .
B etter late than never . Trusser ) .
A laugh is worth a hundred g roans , in a market .
( Lamb ) .
The sleep o f the laboring man is sweet but the abun ,
dance o f the rich will not su ff er them to sleep .
Education is a better safeguard of liberty , than a
standin g army ( Ever et )

. .
The man who has his wishes all satisfied is the most ,
unhappy man on earth .
A small amount of schooling in the right direction is ,
like forked lightening ; it is concentrated an d mighty .
From saving comes having ; but not so q uickly as

,
comes from grabbin g .
God must have loved the plain people . He made so

many of them .
( Lincoln ) .
Art may err but nature cannot

, .
( Miss Dryden ) .
Never O pen the door to a little sin ,

f o r f ea r
x a larger one
will find it s way into the family .
A green Christmas a fat graveyard, .
Winter finds out what summer lays up

, .
A swarm of bees in May is worth a load , of hay ; but a

swa r m in July is n ot worth a fly .
April and May are the keys to the whole year

, .
Green Christmas a white Easter

, .
Boast thyself not fo r tomorrow for thou knowest not ,
what a day may bring forth .
Any time means no time

,
.
There is a time for all things .

( Scripture ) .
Sweet is pleasure after pain , .
Great mental worth emanates from , g reat mental con

centration .
Y ou came as seasonably as snow ,

in s u mm e r .
O pportunity makes the thief .
The opportunity is often lost by deliberation .
Know your opportunity .
O pportunity is the cream of time .
N ever trust to a new friend or an ol d enemy , .
Much readin g makes a general mind but not a great ,
mind.
There is n o medium that broadens reason faster than ,
the study o f maxims .

1 12 BOOK OF P RO VE RB S .
S mooth words make smooth ways, .
A dirty tale should never be told nor hea r d , .
Thoughts are forerunners of great events

, .
Rapid and accurate work is always in demand , .
The best wearing qu a ut y, is cheerfulness .
G en i us commands a d miration
, .
( Max i m ) .
’
Everybody s business is nobody s business ,
’
.
( Maxim ) .
Punctuate as you write . Pay as y ou go .
Strong purposes bring stron g success , , .
C ultivate the talents you hav e .

’
Don t aim at the talents
you have not
‘
No man can lou n ge into success .
Perseverance removes mountains , and cons tru ct s i m

mens e tunnels .
A successful career in life is half mad e , i f you g et the

right start .
t
.
He who will not work shall not , ea .

( S c ript u r e ) .
No sweat no sweet , . O
( dl M a xi m ) .
N o pa ins ,
no g ain s .
( M a xi m ) .
Be lik e a n oa k . H a ve a principle ,
s tron g and soli d .
G oods are hal f sold , when well b o u g ht . ( O ld M a xim ) .
Do not continually fi nd fault with your nei ghb ors

, ,
.
1 14 BOOK O F P RO VE RBS .
An o l d adage The grave is the great leveler ;

, bu t
the bar and bar whiskey does it much quicker
, , .
Possession pampers the mind ; privation trains and

stren g thens it .
A sweet temper can be cultivated the same as anything ,
Dollars and cents will not buy happiness ; happiness is

found in medium wealth .
The pendulum of a clock is in the center vibration , ,
g i ves the index to the happy medium

‘
The song of the spring bi r ds is the most charming

music ; moreover the birds never went to college to learn
,
to sing ( Nature )
. .
I f you only se e on e side of your desk all your li fe you ,
are an adding machine .
The odor from you r body is an index to your charac

’
ter ; the odor o f a flowe r is its index , .
For happiness be not ,

t oo e n t hu a s t i c , b ut always on the
bright side .
Cranks are the greatest benefactors they are sure to ,
do something great .
Heaven and wealth are variety all adapted to make ,
them more charming .
ver exact is a greater happiness destroyer than not

O ,
being exact enough .
M any idiots have a talent on certain topics which i f ,
cultivated w ou l d p r ov e very beneficial to humanity ; hence

~
there should be a special institution for idiots .

Boox O F P RO VE RE S . 15
Close the eyes ears and nose , , of a bat and it will find
,
its way to a hole in the wall .
Drunk eness has destroyed every government on

in proportion as drunkeness increases the end of the ,
is approaching .
smiles that approach each other nine times

T wo , out of
ten end in a kiss
, .
Animals kill and prey upon each others flesh Man is .
the image of God and is governed by the golden rule that

,
Christ gave .
The finest ros e has the sharpest thorns and deepest ,
wounds come from the ones w e l ove most .
The more elevated on e is in learning and art the less ,
they are understood .
We live as —
w e th ink , we think as we are taught and as ,
we read .
O nl y gentleness will draw out gentleness .
A bad tempe red man will not make close friends , .
A horse is not known by his trappings ; men are to be

esteemed for virtue not wealth , .
Teach self denial and make its practice a pleasure

, .
For the sake of patriotism the salo on should die , .
Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and , ,
drunkeness .
Conversion is unselfish a sudden revolution a higher , of

order , a new insight into spiritual li fe a larger world of ,
celest i al beauties opened .

116 BO O K OF P RO V ERB S .
He w ho sups with devils should have a long handle , to

his spoon .
It is unnecessary su ff er i ng that brings premature , .
g ray
hairs .
The man w ho has his animal nature under proper con

trol is a free man .
Mann ers are the final and perfect flower of , , a nobl e

character ( Winters )
. .
A full belief in ourselves is half the ba ttl e , in a n y eff or t .
A serious ma n is the mos t stupid

, .
‘
To be happy you have to be

, as high in y ou r ca lli n g ,
as you possibly can .
G reat e ff orts come from industry , an d p ers ev e r en ce .
Rogues are smooth in talk ; honest pe opl e a re p l a i n .
S tudy , wi th honest e ff ort is , t he true r oa d t o w ea lth .
E ve ry successful man has the backbone to

,
sa y no .
Av oid political and religious disputes and loud , ar gu

ments ; be obligin g and polite in all .
A thin tongue ; a glassy talker .
of mu c h ,
’
D on t form the habit talking t oo on a n y top i c,
during bu s iness hours .
M a n y s tudents ha ve made brilliant s peeche s in co l l ege ,
and were never heard of after ; but the boy at t he foot of

t he class rose t o em inence .
Bu s i n es s en gag emen t s must be met p r ompt l y .

Perseverance brings success .
The day is almost at hand when nearly , ordinar y

teaching will be done by maxims
,
.
A ge and wedlock f ame man and be ast

, .
M en are but children of a larger growth

’
, .
G rey hair and red lips seldom go together ; they

,
sol v e friendship .
Y oun g men for war old , me

n for council .
It is hard to put old heads on young shoulders .
Y outh comes but once in a lifetime .
M en m ust work and women must weep

, .
The pas sionate are like men standing on their heads

, ,
they s ee all things in t he wrong ( Plato ) . .
A bad workman fights with his tools ,

.
The work praises the workman

, .
L et every man follow the trade he better understands .
O ne bee ,
18 better than a handful of flies .
Learn to labor and to wait .
Think of the mind that can hold all the past the present ,
and the future ; think of God .
N othing will j ustify profanity

, .
B e not among wine bibbers among riotous eaters of

flesh ( S c ri ptu r e )
. .
V ulgarit y d efi l e s '
fine garments more than mud .
For the drunkard and glutton shall come to pove rty , .
A good temper is like a sunny day it sheds bri g htne s s ,
everywhere ( Sydney ) .
Trouble springs from idlenes s ; g r evi ou s toil from

n eedless ease .
Work fir st rest last , .
S eventy fi v e pe r cent of our great men come from

-
.
,
the poorer c lasses

’
Under the direction of reason instinct is always right , .
( Burke ) .
sermons are better adapted to good rea

S kel et om z e d ,
s on ; than reckless firing into topics undigested .
As soon as the d anger is past God is forgotten _ , .
Why beholdest thou the m ote in thy brother s eye and ’

,
considerest n ot the b eam in thine own eye ( Bible ) . .
The workman is worthy ,

of his hire .
The swifter anything runs the less friction ; young ,
folks take a hint a n d run fast through the pathway of life

, , ,
i f y o u want t o live long .
"
Time O h ho w quiet and silent those long ages ; even
,
the sun and stars obey ; it is the hand o f G o d in nature .
The world s fair is the best medium to symbolize the

’
, ,
greatness o f the nation .
There is nothing that takes the sharp edge o ff an enemy

faster than the acts o f kindness
, .
1 20 B O O K OF P RO VE RBS .
S harp
and witty sayings are like surface springs they , ,
come from a shallow source .
Look before you leap ; snakes m a y be among the beauti

tiful flowers .
To prophesy is large inspired thinking ; fashions are

, ,
little and uninspired thinking

, .
Man is prone to do evil even as the s p arks are , to fly

upward ( Bible )
. .
The nation that solici ts trade is prosperous ; the nation ,
that gets behind a Chinese wall wil l d i e prematurely , .
Sin at first seems so small an d so innocent ; but al a s

, , , , "
how soon it is a monster ; a giant that defies the h os t s .
We should always try and find t he g o od in o thers , and

leave the bad go to t he waste ba sket .
ei g hbor s fa ul ts, w e
’
’
Before W e attempt to correct our n
should correct our own .
Unless you learn do disagreeabl e dutie s to , y ou a r e u n fit

to manage any busine ss for other parties .
V ariety is t he spice of life that gi v es

, all its fl a vor .
The fur that warmed the mon a rch warm ed , t he bear .
Kind looks kind wo rd s kind a ct s wa rm ha n d s ha kin g

, , , ,
are a m eans o f g race ; they will t a lk t o u nbo rn g en e ra t ion s .
M other nature is ,
t he best docto r on ea rth .
It is a great a rt , to l a u gh a t you r own m i s fortu n es .
I f you want t o kn ow t he va l ue of mon ey , a tt empt to

borrow ( Fra n kl in )
. .
Fact s are stubborn things .
Sober second thought is always essential , a n

d s eldo m
wrong ( V anburen )
. .
A bad temper never mellows with age

,
.
The average human brain is three times larger than ,

’
t he largest gorilla s .
The animal kingdom is made perfect as far as their ,
creation goes ; while man s creation is perfect when un p e r

’
verted .
Finns and Cossacks have the largest brain , 9 8 cubic

inches .
Nature hides its head like the river Nile .
All c reatures possess the fullest degree of happiness ,
in their proper sphere .
God gives six s i d e s ft o snowflakes and to silica ; a phi

'
l o s op hy not y et explained .
Elevation above the eyes ; dullness of the mind .
D ep r e s s1 on l n the benter of the forehead ; poor memory .
Drunkards at heart but too stingy to buy , whiskey .
Plain straight , w r 1n kl e s on the forehead ; plain straight ,
and honest .
Full abo v e the ears kill and bloodthirsty , , ca r n i ve r ou s ,

fond of meat .
Flat above t he ears ; sickly cowardly and dyspeptic

, .
Thin upper lip ; s ti ngy .

B O OK OF P ROVE RBS . 1 23
People of light eyes and hair do n ot see or hear as good ,
as darker ones Indians are a good example .

.
The same praying machine in the Torrid one is good " ,
all the time as the climate is ; the same in the Temperate

" ones In hilly lands religious forms are changeable
.
,
.
When the devil looks least like himself then he is the ,
most dangerous devil .
E blessings can be t oo prolific like money or food ;

v en ,
t oo much is too much of anything
The sick m a n of the East ,

.
( C hina ) .
Dyspepsia makes the meanest kind of religious liars

,
.
Fine type crowded together is an eye sore ; too

, ,
manv
inmates crowded in a room is an eye sore
, ,
.
Cromwell s unfailing reliance in God made him the

’
,
greatest conq uere r of his age '
Icicles slide easily from the hand ; half learned lessons

s u de easily from your mind .
When men carry umbrellas the evidence is that it is ,
raining ; when y ou come home with a black eye the evidence ,
is that y ou were practicing f o r Christmas .
The man o f profanity carries a discordant heart i t , .

f
.
grates upon the ears o f man and beast and u n fit s h m f n

i -
,
‘
decent society .
T good maxims y ou have to cream all litera t ure

o w r 1t e , .
through all ages t o gain the best thoughts t o hand d o w

, ,
'
unborn generations .
Never marry but f or love but see thou what is love

, , ,
ly .
( Wm Penn ) . .
BO O K OF P ROVE RB S .
V ote on the line of temperance as you talk and pra y , .
Prosperity is a teacher adversity is a greater teacher

, .
Drones under the wheels o f science are n ovel readers

, , ,
ga mblers and drunkard s .
Every man is the architect of his own chara cter ( Pr e .
S i d en t M c Ki n l e y ) .
In many of the we s tern states they have dugouts and ,
when a dangerous storm comes the family runs into mother ,
e a rth ; when danger c omes old mother snake opens her

m outh and the youn g brood runs in
,
.
Eating certai n va r it i e s o f fruit in eradicating certain ,
d i seases is scientific and should be encouraged

, , .
N ations and families that observe the , S a bbot h, are

p rosperous and happy
Ink is t he power house to keep the great power wheels

,
of civilization in motion
,
A pump is like good motives in place all the t ime , .
Perfection is the fact that puts persons in high places .
I t is a great privilege to a good schoolto go . School

in g m a ke s the s tr ong and pro sperous citizen
, .
T he w a y to make a friend is to be one , .

( Mitchel ) .
Peace ha s her victories no less renowned than war

, .
W ilton )
There is no more vo r acious creature than the cater
pillar ; in a month it will eat 600 times its weight .
Straight t i ee s ,
'
have crooked roots .

f t
1 26 BO O K or i a ova ns s ;
Evenly all around top head ; for gen eral good m orality
—
,
and Christianity .
A str ong ev enly proportioned forehead ; for a plain

,
strong all around man -

.
A large forehead dished in the center ; mean disposi

,
tion . Very changeabl e .
Lar g e knuckles on your hands int ell ectuality and pluck .
Nice beautifully shaped hands ; harmonious mind not

,
,
r emarkably intellectual .
Darknes s prevails in solar space because the sun has no ,
obj ect to develop per fection .
Youth is a blunder ; manhood a struggle ; ol d age a

regret ( Disraeli )
. .
When platform is so broad and thin that it is unsafe ,
to stand on ; let it go a nd find on e that is not so broad but ,
safe .
Some men can boss better for their neighbor than for ,
themselves .
It is as impossible to restore youth as to roll back the ,
river of ti me .
All the sounds in music are necessary to perfect har ,
mony ; all the nerves are necessary to develop proper har

mony in the body .
The forest has straight and crooked trees ; the same in

p eople there are straight and crooked people ; all to fill a
,
place in the scale o f creation .
The mound builders had a knowledge of tempering cop

per ; an art that is lost .
BO O K OF 1 I t O VE RBS . 1 27
Curved down wrinkles wrinkles in the cen ter ,

of the
f orehead ; a genius .
A plain smooth forehead high , an d broad ; intel l ect .
Prefer ol d hea ds and young ,

hearts .
A narrow short pointed chin ; weakly ; smal l heart ;

,
p oor circulation ; timid .
Heavy square under j aws ,

wilful ; commanding and
v ery stubborn .
V ery dark eyes ; full of thunder and l i g ht ni hg ; some

what vicious
Grey eyes ; sharpness strength and commanding

, .
Light yellow hair ; j ealousy and noted for suspicion , .
Even harmonious face ; good sense and long life .
V ery light hair and eyes ; weak eyes soft skin easily , ,
Young man consult your father he is often as old

, , as
y o u ; and often knows as much .
Pu gnose ; like a pug d og ; harmless ; lazy ; good for

eating and sleeping .
Nose raised at the end and center finely curved ; dispo ,
S i t i on i s art i st i c sensitive and very fine

, , .
A high head in the center ; disposition poetical ; spiritual

and a good trace of meanness mixed with religion to round ,
i t out
.
Flat head ; general all around coarseness ; tale n t s me

-
cha n i ca l full o f i nventions generous and changeable .

From the same flower the bee gathers honey and also , , , ,
the most deadly poison .
The wages of sin is death , .

( Scripture ) .
To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel ,

.
None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing ,
.
There is no general rule without exc ep tions ,

.
M any things are la wful but not expedient ,

.
Every evolution ’
of time puts ,
on a higher and more ,
Godlike step .
The man w ho is always talking about his rights is the ,
worst agitator and an unsafe citizen

,
.
D o your duty quietly and firmly ,

.
It is well to think fw e l l ; it is divine to act well ( M ann ) . .
The boy w ho is obedient to teachers and to parents ,
makes a good companion .
Many people are gathering up past present and future , ,

.
troubles adding misery in every grade

, .
A man should never be ashamed to own that he had ,
been in the wrong .
L earn the luxury of doing good .

( G oldsmith ) .
Recol lect t ri fle s make perfection and perfection is no

,
Habit is a cable we weave a thread of it each day and

, ,
it becomes so strong that we cannot break it ( Horace .
M ann ) .
BO O K OF P ROVE RBS . 1 29
He who marries without love plants a thorn bush at the ,
ord is o f no use without the bow ; the man

T he c is of
no use without the woman .
Proverbs give the fullest answers and save time , .
The ingredients of good prove rbs are sense shortness

'
and salt ( Howell )

. .
Kissing the dead and those who have contagious dis

,
eases should be strictly prohibited

,
M any premature .
graves are produced from this class o f kissing .
H wonderfully pleasant is the coming o f spring when

ow ,
nature i s transformed from a col d dreary grave ; into the ,
lovely spring when all nature is blooming and laughing

,
.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lo rd ,

t hv God in ,
There is no medium that brings a man s true self to ’

,
hims elf s o quickly as sickness It is the grandest u n i fi e r ;

, ,
.
the rich the poor the hi g h a n d the low are all t he same
, , , w
within the j aws o f this great monster It is God s great .

’
forerunner to make preparation f or another world .
Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work ; for the ,
seventh day is the Sabbath .
When G o d paints all creation with the white snow ; the

cemetery with the little white mounds appears surpassing
, ,
l y lovely The monuments and tombstones come in second

.
ary .
The broom and the ol d house d og appear in the scale

, ,
of companionship almost as part o f the famil y

, .
A fish breathes though it has no lungs , .

1 30 B O OK on P RO VE RBS .
V anity of vanity says the preacher and all is vani t y

, ,
.
( Solomon ) .
The golden rule in this fast age has , ,

t oo much alloy i ii
it to amount to much .
Anxiety is the poison of human life

,
.
( Blair ) .
It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery ;

it is the friction ( B eecher ) . .
No use crossing the stream until , y o u reach it .

( Lin
coln ) .
A maiden s heart is a dark forest

’
.
Maidens should be mild and m eek and slow to speak ,

.
She loves him best , w ho passes through the gate l ast .
Small girl s are w on by dolls ; large girls by dollars .
The virtuous maid ,

a nd the broken leg must stay at ,
home ( Servantes )
. .
The fat o f the body is the fuel laid up in case ,

of fever ,
or t o feed the life in long fasting .
The spinal marrow that em i n a t e s from your brain rami ,
fi e s small nerves t o all part s o f the body which are the ,
telegraphs t o tell y o u the news o f every part o f the body ,
even to a prick of a pin As long as y o u live it is the .
guardian angel .
The line o f demarkation between saving and spending

money is very fine s o as t o keep in the easy chair o f the
, ,
R
medium : the plumb line mentioned by the prophet
m os
appy .
Unto us a child is born unto us a ,

s on is given .
The first and last period o f a man s life passes the ’
fastest The first and last period o f t he nation passes the

.
,
fastest The United States being i n the last of the last

.
,
period therefore inferring from this index the life o f o u r

, , ,
nation will n ot be many more years .
Good breeding consists , of s tillness of person a nd
steadiness of features .
H ow lovely tranquil and statel y are the great mou n

tains ?
, ,
H treacherous the sea

ow is i n her placid beauty "
How
fascinating it is l
The soul has her gatewa y to the outer world through

, ,
the orifice of the ear .
Tallness is queenly and is admired by all ; it is grand

,
.
When po ets and prophets in Bible times desired spiritual , ,
communication with God they went into the mountain ,
forests and caves .
Shakespeare w a s the most careless i n his literary fame ,
of all poets ; notwithstanding he arose to greater eminence

than any poet living or dead , .
The greatest characters that ever lived em i n a t e from ,
the most humble births and exposed to the most abj ect ,
poverty .
It is convenient to be poor . It is dangerous to be rich .
The battle of Bunker Hill was fought June 1 7t h 1 77 5 ; ,
being the first battle in the revolution for the freedom o f

America .
A learned man can only be appreciated by a noth e r

l e arne d ma n .
BO O K OF PRO V ERBS . 133
I f y ou s ee a man over polite to his customers , y o u m u st

w atch him he has an ax to grind ( Franklin ) . .
If ou find a man w ho can be bought or sway ed he is

y ,
a ve rv unsa fe companion .
The grave is the m o st remarkabl e fact in t he human

family but O h how q uiet and silent
,
" .
Li ke whe at and iron a man is alway s rated in harmo ny ,
to his value of us efulness .
Solomon s t emple for the last three thou s and years

’
, ,
was the best advertised house on earth .
Boy don t be discouraged

,
’
. A bull f rog at one tim e , .
was on l v a ti n y little tadpole ,

.
Promptness and willingness in a youn g ma n , i s a s ure

index to a success ful life .
’
Y ou
can t sympathize with a neighbor in his trouble s ,
unless you have su ff ered like trouble s O bj ect les son s talk .
louder than words .
The w a t e r t u r tl e is the most indep endent creatu e in

'
the world She carries her armor her hous e and navy all
.
, ,
on her back She don t sing or talk quietly she lives and
.
’
, ,
when she is s l eepy s he throws he s el f on t he billows o f the

‘ r
ocean and is rocked to sleep in the cradle o f the deep

, ,
.
’
The daisy can t see but when night comes she clo s e s ,
her flowery home ; and when that dark storm comes she ,
clo s es all the petals so that is safe ; and when the rain i s,
over she opens her door
Jacob the patriarch made pets o f his two boys Joseph

, , ,
and Benj amin thereby causing m uch unhappiness in his

,
family ; which is v ery frequently the case when parents put

r e d coats on so m e sheep coats on others , .
1 34 BOOK OF P ROVE RB S .
Endure annoyance bravely and politel y ,

.
Consider honor as a sacred duty .
Pay your debts promptly .
As the boy appears the man will be

,
.
The waves of the ocean are quiet talkers The y hav e .
mouths large eno ugh to swallow a ship and all they sav is
" " "
,
Wau Wau Wau
As soon as y ou unders t and the law o f attraction an d

“
repulsion you are inclined to say ; how simple are the laws
,
o f God that govern the universe .
Some women when they are n ot laughing look as cross ,
and ugly as an oyster in a shell ; and when they are laugh

ing they look as sweet as an oyster out of the shell
,
.
Some old hypocrites look as cross as a toad un d er a briar

bush and s o very religi ous that t hey almost think it a sin
,
to take a good laugh and for all around meanness they have
,
'
-
few equals .
When y ou hear people saying I would be ashamed to ,
be seen there watch and see that same nice fellow sneaking
, , ,
around the corner t o get there first .
To be talking and com p l a i n i n g a bou t vour ailments is “

,
v ery annoying to all in hearing distance .
The most lovely thing that surrounds us is our shadow

"
.
,
O h ho w quiet a n d penetrating it is It sneaks along like “
a bashful boy and don t talk

,
’
.
,
a
'
I f all your hope is lost and gone .
y ou h d bett e r be
A square chin ; square strong and stubborn

, .
136 BO O K OF PROV E RB S .
It i s better to write one word on the rocks than a th ou s ,
and on the sand .
The old clock like the ,

0 1d t ha n w il l s ome day sudden
ly stop never to go again
,
.
The f ailure s of honest and industrious men are f ew

, , .
N ever become discouraged work zealously and , y ou wil l

s u cceed
The wi n d a n d t he wav es are always ,

on the side of t he
be st navigators ( Gibbon )
. ;
The delta of the Mississippi was at one time as far a s ,
St . Loui s .
The weights o f t he clock hang speec le s s but the y are h

,
the li fe o f the clock G o d is the weight of the life of man ;

.
he runs a life time w i t li ou t being wou n d up and at death h e

s tops short"
,
never to go again
. .
The delicious smell o f the apple induced Jack to eat it ;

'
the delicious smell o f the whiskey induced the toper to start ,
another drunk .
The lever of the printing press touches the mind of ,

.
the governments o f the earth ; by and by it will harmonize ,
and press together all the nations of the earth an d make one
, ,
mighty syndicate government .
The best culture i s simplicit y .
Like broken glass your credit when broken can t be

, , ,
’
placed together solidly .
Architectural machinery is frozen music ; perfectly dead

until started by motive power then it will spin and sing , .
All mankind l ov e s . a lover .

( Gay );
’
When people carry umbrellas y ou can t positively say ,
that it rains ; when everybody says Jack stole the turkey ,
the evidence is very strong but y ou can t swear that he stole ,

’ “
the turkey ,
The waters o f the earth are receding ; and by this pro

cess land i s i ncreasing to accomodate the millions that are
, ,
coming to o u r shores .
Everything that lives and moves on the face of the ,
earth is imperfect ; nothing is perfect ; hence comes the

, ,
imperfect man .
Paul the apostle being a Roman citizen saved him

, , ,
from rison e ven so in wealth men who were saved from

pri son because of the i r r i ches
0 O 0
.
,
Iron is the most plenti ful metal and also the most ,
useful to add happiness to man .
Decaying plants fossilized forms all the varieties of ,
The better and longer you can keep the laugh going ,
the more you can abuse your opponent without him get ,
ting cross .
Among all the bad habits profan ity is the worst ; every ,
thing i n hearing distance is turned blue by its demonical

odor .
A thunder storm th a t c omes up quickly is soon over ; ,
o n e that comes slowly is a stayer ; the same in man if he ,
comes quickly he i s gone quickly ; but i f he comes slowly

,
he i s a stayer .
I f t he brake is loose on the wheel it runs t oo fast ; i f ,
the brake on your tongue is t oo loos e it runs t oo fast , .
J oy to the world , eLord has come

th .
( Scripture ) .
”
13 8 BO O K OF P RO V E RBS .
John the Baptist wa s the forerunner of Christ ; in all

,
,
things the Creator ha s a forerunner .
The Creator has a sovereign balm by which he heals ,
all the ills of his creatures .
The greatest systemizer in a home is to h a ve daily , ,
family worship .
The hi hest calling is when a man is called back to his

g ,
The pity of the L ord to it ho s e

'
,
‘
t
w ho fear his name .
A rusty n a il under a compass destroy s the true bear ,
ing ; anger under the sweetest tongue wil l destroy the ,
tr ue bearing .
Evil thoughts choke out good deeds ; good thou ghts

ch oke out bad deeds .
Picked Form the cha ff of the ruins of time to be neatly ,
varnished ( Shakespear e)
.
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends
,
of the telescope .
It is exceedingly long ; it is exceedingly short ?( Bl ee h
You hear the boy laughing you thing he is all fun ? ,
( H olm e s ) .
Among a l l the studies the one that elevates the min d

,
the most stands preeminent

, .
When you find a man who is awkwa rd in the presence

of ladies ; nearly every time he mounts to eminence ; you find
the nice slick fascinator a m on g the ladies and you find the
, ,
man who amounts to little in after li fe .

1 40 BOOK OF P ROVE RBS
‘
Happy is the man who can see the finger of God writ ,
i ng the histo ry of rolling ages on the rocks and on the , ,
dying stars .
and temper in a home are as unsafe as

S e l fi s hn e s s ,
dyn a mite and g unpowd er .
While the word is unspoken you are master of it , ou t
w hen it is spoken it is master of y o u .
Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit ,
before a fall .
Misfortunes seldom come alone . Hide not y o ur light

under a bushel .
Laughing whistling and singing are a true index to

, ,
a happy home .
The continuation of everything is the index of its ,
solidity I f i t is short lived it is shaky if it is long lived

.
, ,
it is solid and you are safe to tie to it

, .
When w e make m istakes in writing with blotter a n d ,
eraser w e wipe them out ; when we make mistakes in life ,
we wipe them out by the Spirit of God .
There is more danger in belonging to too many o r

ders than not enough ; you may pay all your mone y to
,
orders and live and die poor at last

,
.
The small and sprightly party will m ake the best steno
grapher ; a large sluggish person will be a failure .
Holding on to trouble too long i s like holding on to ,
the bear s tail too long ; there is always danger of another

’
bear coming .
What a blessing it would be to the human family if ,
they would think more and read less ,

.
BO O K O F PRO VERBS . 14 1
I f you want to gain fame you must commence climbing

,
th e ladder at the lower round ; go round by round by ,

a nd by
we my gain th e summit o f fame .
Christm as is the most popular holiday and has been ,
since the bi rt h of our Saviour ; and n o doubt will remain

‘
so
so through all comi ng ages :
I f y o u want a pearl of gre at value you must dive deep , ,
down in t he ocean ; if you want to be a pearl of great value ,
y o u must dive deep down in the, pages o f us eful ness .
A fair young couple may start out in life and in le ss

, ,
than a year m a y be blighted The a ff airs of life run like

.
lightning zig zag ; striking where least expected

,
-
.
It is better to whistle than to whine ; all creation loves

,
a whi s tl er .
The m an who ties his talents in a napkin is like the ,
miser w ho had a beautiful ring placed under the flap of

hi s sad dl e ; he knew that it w a s there the same as the ,
money in the napkin ; both were buried t al ents no good to ,
a nybody .
The luxuries of on e generatio n are the neces s ities

, of t he
next .
cean currents keep an e q uilibrium ; youn g peo p le

O
mixed with ol d people keep an equilibrium .
O hour of sleep before midnight is w o rt h

ne , t wo i n th
after part of the night .
When the sun is the highest it casts th e least shadow .
Nothing on earth destroys more good s tomachs than ,
over nice treatment .
Each climate needs what other climates produce

, .
1 42 BO O K on P RO VE RB S .
O ur transition pe r iod was when Christ knocked at ,

t he
( 0 07 ,
and we told him to come in .
Step by step well directed we can climb great moun

, ,
tains ; even so in p i oir ot i on s ; one unguarde d step may : ,
prove a fright ful disaster to o ur lives .
God never shuts on e door but that

,
he opens another .
He who c ann ot obey the voice of God in the dark is ,
n ot safe to be trusted in the light .
Speaking lou d and har sh words is very det rimental in ,
”
ah departmen ts of li fe .
His li fe was gentle and the elements so nearly mixed i n,
him that nature might stand and s a y to all the world

,
“
this is the man ( Caes a r ) . .
'
verily I say u n to y o u : he that beli e ve th on me

V erily , ,
S hall have everlasting l if e ( John

‘
.
,
Trust in the Lord , forever .

( Isa .
,
2 6 -4 .
For
age and want save what you may ; no morning ,
sun la s ts all day ( Franklin ) . .
For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; and for want of ,
a shoe the horse was l ost ( Franklin ) . .
’
I f we don t tell funny stories they call us old fossils
,
'
and moss backs ; and if we do tell funny stories they call ,
us rattle skulls .
’
The silent smile of a sensible loving woman will van
, , ,
qu i s h t e n men .
Pu ff balls are fastest growers in the world ; some grow

six inches in diameter in one night T here are swelled .
heads that are about as large as the head of pu ff balls

, .
1 44 BO O K OF PRO VE RB S .
I f you are well acquainted with several leading hi s tor

i e s it is much better t han to be reading a low gra d e o f
,
l iterature .
The gras s is rr ow e d when it will make the best hay .
T he sensible girl will get married when s he will make t he

best wi f e The girl like hay if n ot taken when ripe wil l
.
, , ,
be good for n othing .
should improve the present aright when we kno w

W e ,
so little of the f uture .
The Pharisee thanked G od that he was not like other

,
m en , or even like the publican .
I f the slaves d o n ot have the rich tables the same as ,
the master ; they can thank G o d that they have the same air ;
the same water ; the same sleep ; the same death ; the same
grave and the same worm to eat t he body
,
.
The b l acksmith plunges the iron into the water to give ,
it t he right temper t he g r ea t man plunges into the i n cl em

t
ent elements to give his body and mind the right temper
,
.
Perfe ct freedom among any p eople develops genius ,

.
We s hould be very careful n ot to tell our s ecrets to ,
them w ho are always pumping f o r t hem .
When the E uropean races left Asia is a question ,

n ot
an s wered by the best ethnologists .
Wh erever
go the environs are full o f temptations ;
we ,
hence the scriptural inj unction watch and pray

, , .
I f a man deceives you more than once that man should ,
be kept for the very purpose to be deceived .
O ne hal f of al l known minerals are composed of oxy

,
gen .
( Cook ) .
Diamonds are more costly than useful ; so also are , ,
fashionable ladies .
The more beautiful the serpent the more fatal the bite ; ,
appearance is a deceiver and must be closely watched

‘
,
.
Impud ence is the meanest depravity ; modesty is the

essence of purity .
Arouse a woman s admiration and you have gained ’

,
her a ff ection .
ften virtue an d hospitality are found

O , , where y o u
l east expect to find them .
The most inveterate enemies are often found among ,
ou r best friends .
T o make fire in a rain is like praying without faith ,

.
A deluge of sin can destroy soul and body ; a deluge of

, _
water can only destroy the body

,
.
A slanderer is the child of the devil

,
.
( Maxim ) .
All the heavenly bodies are not suns ; never repine at

y o u r l ot
Better for a man never to have sinned than to repent ,
after havin g sinned .
Life has its s e diments ; the same as drinks hav e their

sediments .
Pe r s e r ve r a n ce
does more to overcome great di ffi culties ,
than power W i ll accomplish .
Let thy atti re be comely not costly , .

( L illy ) .
Probe not a wound when once , he a l éd .

1 46 BO O K OF P ROVE RBS .
Shut your door and you make your neighbor

, g o o- i .
A tree is known by its fruit

,
.
Jack of all trades and master of none ,

.
Make hay when the sun shines

,
.
M arch comes in like a lion , a nd goes ou t like a lamb .
O pportunity makes the thief

,
.
Trust in God but keep the powde r dry

,
‘
.
Trusting too much to others is the ruin of many ,

.
Faith builds a bridge across the gul f of death ,

.
T r e a che r v lurks in honeyed words .
To s t r 0ke with one hand and stab with the other , .
Conscience doth make cowards of us all

, .
God and conscience witnesseth every action , .
The truth is mighty and will prevail , .
Speak the truth and shame the devil , .
O ne v ice begets another

, .
Never open the door to a l ittle V i ce lest , a greater one

enters with it .
To throw pearls before swine , .
A fat kitchen makes a lean purse, .
Y our money burns a hole in your pocket

, .
verse in the Bible m a y cha n g e the bad man to a

O ne ,
‘
good man ; one verse in a boo k may make a good man a ,
bad man .
Peace is the grandest step in favor of purity ,

fin a n
ci a l l y and spiritually .
Speaking t oo much is a s i gn o f vanity ; For that which

'
is lavished in words , is niggardly in deeds . R

( aleigh ) .
The wise man fla t t e r s the fool ; but the fool fla tt e r s him

self ( Loth ) ;
.
He is a very good preacher who follows his own ,

ih
s t r u c t i on s .
O ne of the most sublime things is plain truth ,

.
( Bul
mer ) .
I f thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is ,
small ( O l d Bible )
. .
rder is sanity of the mind health of the body and

O , ,
peace of the city .
It might as well be expected for a weak man to bear ,
a burden as a fool to bear prosperi ty ( Socrates )

, . .
He who is taught to live on little owes more to his ,

’
father s wisdom than the bestowal o f great riches
, .
What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue , ?

Such liberty is the greatest of all evils .
Not to stop when we have enough is the greatest error ,
i n the nature of many .
Air and sunshine in a house promote s health a n d ,
cheer ; therefore select the room in the house ha ving the ,
most sunl i ght and air for the sitting ro om, .

BO O K O F PRO VER BS . 1 49
I f you trouble the bait of sin you are unhappy if you , ,
t rouble the bait of g oodness , y o u are happy and y our sleep

is good .
The li ght from t he gl o w worm is divine ; t he same as
t he light from the g r eat est star -

.
A stron g purpos e g ives a meaning to life that means

s uccess .
A sermon well soaked in pray er helps

, ,
t he sproutin g
q ualiti e s immen sely .
The sho ul der to the wheel is the be s t aid ,

to the well
fi tting Heavenly crown
,
.
An impure cel lar will mak e an impure ho u s e ; ,

an im
pure stomach will make an i mpure body
"
.
,
To store beer and whiskey in a church is wron g ; to ,

’
store it in your body is wro ng ; t he Hol y Spirit can t dwell
in either place .
Natu re dressed in neat clothes makes a good maxim

, ,
.
In the Frigid zones hares and weasels trans form their ,
white color to correspon d with the environs .
The Book o f Proverbs carr ies more reason and more , ,
spirituality than any other book in the Bible

, .
The Creator was more afraid o f a human ton gue than ,
o f any other member of the body ; hence notice the heavy ,
j aws teeth lips and strong muscles all arou nd it to keep it

, , , ,
in subj ection .
The finest material may be spoiled by a poor mechanic ; ,
the best boy may be destroyed by a poor teacher .
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery , .

B OOK OF P ROVE RB S
‘
1 50 .
P oliten ess is an easy vi r tue costs little ,

and ha s great
p u chasing
r
power .
Let this be your maxim ; that no man be good enough

to ‘
n e g l e ct pruden c e ( Fielding ). .
temperance p r evails education can prevai l ; if tem

If ,
p e r a n c e fails ; educati o n must fail ( H o race Mann ) . .
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market ,

.
( L a mb ) .
Purposes like e ggs unl ess they are hat ched into action
, , ,
will run int o de c ay ( Smiles ) . .
There i s no man so f i en d l e s s but that he can find a

“
friend s incere en ough to tell him a disagr e eable truth .
( Lytton ) .
E nergy will do anything that can be done ; neither tal

ent s n or o p portunities will make a man without it .
Teach m ore principles and not so many laws and ,
rules and your good will be imitated

, .
A certain minister worked three days to get up a ser

mon he got it up so high that in thirty minutes the con , ,
r e a t i on were all asleep

g g .
Every time you overcome a temptation you are one ,
mark higher on the road to perfection ; by and by your stain — -
will be wiped away and you are a free man .
O ld
vocations have vanished new inventions have tak ,
en their places At present o n e man does more work than

.
,
ten did one hundred years ago-

.
I f a man bl a ckens the front of his boots better than the ,
heels he will not make a safe business partner He will

, .
not keep the cellar swept clean .

1 52 BO O K O F PRO VE RB S .
Fifty th ousa nd species of vegetables are extin ct

,
I ca m e to seek and s ave that wh i c h was lo s t

,
.
( Scrip
u e)
t r .
M oral hat r ed ,
is an imitation of f or c ed love .
ealthy men are n ot the most charitable ; large tree s

W
are not the n ost f ruitful - .
T he l azy man wants rest ; the industrious man want s

W O Ik
‘
When men i i d i cu l e others they show their own

,
i gn o r
Spoiled children are made so , by

‘
o ve r fond parents .
S colding wive s are always out o f order

, .
A wi se m a n keep s his secrets ; a fool tells all he knows ,
an d sometime s m ore .
A prudent woman studies the comfo rts o f her hus

band and min i ster s to his happiness
, .
Res p e ct an d befriend and you will have others to

, be
friend you .
If y ou
’
can t keep your own secrets it is folly to entrust ,
th em to others .
V i r tue makes the noble woman ; money m akes the gay
Punish cri me expose the devil and be a man among

, ,
m en .
I t is more detrimental to the human family for happi ,
e
n ss to be over intelligent than not intelligent enou g h
, .
JO H N W A N A M A KE R
15 1 B OOK OF P RO VE RBS .
I f you want to keep the wrinkles ou t of your face ,
keep sunshine in your heart .
Whenever a lazy man looks towards Heaven the ,

an
gels shut the windows .
A laying hen is better than a standing mill ( Seneca )

,
. .
You may tell an idle fellow if , y o u but see him eat his
dinner .
Idleness is the sepul ch re of the living man

, x
.
A man should not allow himsel f to hate his enemies ,
or those that are indi ff erent to him .
He who has less than he desires has more than he de ,
serves .
O good mother is worth a hundred school marms ;

ne ,
she is a lodestone to all hearts and a lode star to all eyes ,

-
.
( Herbert )
I f life like the olive oil is bitter fruit press it harder

, , , ,
and it will a fford the sweetest oil .
The word fail should not , be f ou n d

. on the pages of
ones li fe .
Happy temper like the Aeolian harp sings to every

, ,
breeze .
’
It is a poor soul that can t have a few enemies
, .
A sunny disposition robs sorrow of hal f its bitterness

, .
To say one thing modestly and clever is better t han ,
a d ozen wit h conceit .
Minds like soil when over productive the li fe is short

, , , .
B OOK OF P ROVE RBS .
1 55
The influence o f all ou r actions have an e ff ect that will

live through all ages and will have representat i on i n the
world to come .
The Book o f Proverbs in the Bible contains nine hun , ,
dred and fifteen proverbs The last t w o chapters are the.
authors Though it is said Solomon wrote three thousand

.
proverbs but they are lost H e also wrote on e thousand

,
.
and five songs nearly all o f which are lost He died at the
,
.
age o f fi ft y nine or sixty years

- .
Youth is like a garden n ot planted Y ou plant good .
seeds and you will have good results the same in children ;
plant good thoughts and you will have good results
”
.
Nature the kind ol d nurse took the child upon her

, ,
“
knee and said This IS a story book ; thy Father has writ
,
-
ten it .
The Constitution o f the United States contains liberties

enj oyed They are quiet ble ssings that man y people do not
.
appreciate .
A woman who pays n o attention to her personal ap
p e a r a n c e W i ll,
n o t make an impression .
The ruling passions are set by nature as the innate

ower is stamped on the acorn to produce an oak tree
p
.
By the largest teles copes we can see over one hundred

million o f stars and no doubt some have in their solar sys
, ,
tem more planets f o r habitation than we represent in our '
solar system Still we are so greedy to get more than w e

.
"
need o f this little planet H o w foolish some people are

. .
ment of a busy man and the shipwreck of a sovereign ( Na

, .
p o l e o n ) .
Love is the occupation o f the idle man ; t he amuse

When the devil finds the door shut he goes away , .
1 56 B OOK OF P ROVE RBS .
O hhow dangerous it is to have a friend that is not

, ,
able to keep his tongue ; a prudent enemy is better .
A
'
woman s mind is always changi ng like the moon

’
, .
It is di fficult to k n ow or to find out at what moment ,
love commences .
Work is healthy it is ,
n ot work that kills prematurely ;
it is worry that does it .
Love that comes t o is much better and stronger

'
y o u
'
, , ,
than that you run after .
Better is a dinner of herbs where l ove is than a stalled ,
ox and hatred therewith ( Solom on ) . .
A man s capacity for loving is the measurement of his

’
,
greatness in all relations .
I f it wa s not for hope not a grain of wheat would be ,
sown It is hope that keeps us alive moving and going

.
, ,
day after day ; and when life is done the Heavenly hope is ,
the great seal .
Flowers on ou r p r a r i e s have bloomed for ages u n

, , ,
seen by man ; virtue has bloo med without man knowing it ;

the sweetness of both have gone to heaven .
C on s p i ci ou s ,
by his absence .
Good pasture makes fat sheep , .
As full as an egg is of meat

, .
I f the cap fits you wear it , .
The wheel that tu rns gathers no rust , .
I n brave action no trumpet is n eeded , .

1 58 BO O K O F PRO VE BS
’
B .
v ery woman sho uld make hersel f as attracti ve

E , , an d
beautiful as po s sible .
I f the i n crease o f life is seven and one half years in a

,
-
century ; i n ten centuries it W i ll be on e hundred and t e n -
yea r s .
Vi rt u e ha s it s
reward but ow n ,
s om e men are goo d
because they really like to be good .
very li f e that l o s es its high aim be comes a shor n

E , ,
S ampson .
’
D on t wait f or some work to turn up but , g o a nd turn
up s ome work .
It is
the gilded paper nor the good writing that
n ot , ,
ma kes your petition strong ; but the good sense it contain s .
If your plea s ur e harmonizes with duty it is ge nuine , .
The only hopeles s ignorance is to be ignorant , and
b oa st ab out it .
Christianity w a s not born to die ; it will be the gate

keep er of the kingd om of God .
Go to church for c hurch helps to ease the pains o f

,
l i fe ( John S he rman )
. .
The fruit that falls without shaking is too mellow for ,
Love is t he most dangerous when it comes late ,

in
li fe ( Byron )
. .
Love m a kes time pas s

, .
( French ) .
Love bein g mixed with business makes the love case

, , ,
t he most dang erous .

BO O K O F PRO VE RBS f
. 15 9
W e ha ve one Father even God ,

.
( John 8
I gnor ance ,
thinks the rest of the wo rl d blind .
Thi s worl d belo ng s to t he e n e r g e ti c .

( Emerson ) .
Nothi ng so di fficul t but may be ,

wo n by industry .
( T er
e nce )
Justi ce tem per ed wi th

,
t oo much m ercy , be éom es an in
j ustice .
The fox shoul d n ot be on a j ury in a goos e trial

, .
Int entio ns s oon spoil ,

u nless hat ched .
Giving chi ldren habits of indu s try ,

is bet ter than fo r
”
t un es
.
( Whately ) .
When industry goes out of the door poverty comes ,
in at the window ( Dut c h) . .
Take awa y the m otive , and y ou take aw ay '

t he sin .
( C a r va n t e s )
A man that studieth revenge keepeth his o wn wounds ,
g reen ; which ot herwise would heal and do very well .
Despair is the o ff spring of lazine s s and i mpatience .
Those can con quer , w ho think they can .

( E mer s on ) .
S tren gt h of mind is excercise not rest , . Po e

( p ) .
Laugh at your ills and sav e you r doctor bills

, .
Smile on the world and the world will smile on , y o u ;

frown on it and it will frown on you .
Fortune often makes fools out of decent men

, .
1 60 BO O K OF PRO VE RBS .
Learn the luxury of doing good .
W o rds are leaves deeds are rust ,

.
Better to wear ou t , than to rust out .
If y o u would have a thing well done do it yoursel f .
Use the means and trust to God ,

f o r t heblessing .
Whe r e you cannot go over you must creep under ,

.
Advice to a fool goes in at one ear and out at the

,
‘
other .
A fool may give a wis e man council

,
.
Practice what you preach

, .
No wind can do him good , w ho steers for no shore .
What mak es life dreary is ,

t he want of a motive .
M uch kindred much tro uble , ,
The man who overcomes his temper ,

o v e r co m s a stout
en emy .
A mischievous cur must be tied short , .
Handsome is that handsome does

, .
A ll that is fair and beautiful must fad e , .
Alexander was once a crying babe

, .
He that stays on the lower round cannot fall far , .
I came that they may have li fe and that they may have ,
it more abundantly ( John ) . .

1 62 B OO K O F P ROVE RB S .
Do not put your light un d er a bushel ; keep it out and

let it shine .
Success does not run after you but you mu s t run afte r ,
it ; and then it is sometimes mighty hard to g et
Long life is assured to those that are good and obey

the laws .
The monster tree i s not cut dow n by a si ngle cut ; step

by step we go through life .
I f you are too poor to bu y a cork for your vinegar j ar ,
use a corncob I f you are t oo poor to buy a silk hat u s e a

. ,
slouch hat ; no one will steal it .
The reason you w a s such a failure the harnes s wa s ,
rubbing you ; y ou w a s hitched up wrong you kick in har ,
ness ; you need watching .
A deep instinct per vades in man to do good ov e r all
bad passions .
God is our refuge and strength ; a very pres ent hel p e r

in trouble .
Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to

dwell together in union .
There i s a place on the Hudson that appears like a g reat

wall— no place to get out ; even so in life trust in G o d for ,
the openin g .
When you are made o f good genuine stu ff a ra i ny S un , ,
day i s not supposed to keep you away from the hou s e of

worship .
Sin makes y ou ve ry uncomfortable until a l l t he ,

root s
and sprouts of your i mmoral nature a r e gone th en G od v
'
, g i es
you comfort a n d happine s s .
B OOK OF P ROVE RBS . 16 3
The Laplanders bury their babies in the snow while ,
church services last ; w e should bury o u r thoughts i n Chr i st

while church services last .
Want of care d oes more damage than want of knowl
Hilarity and laughter is no index to continued happi

ness The gloom will come soon and the reaction will bring
. ,
more unhappiness than w a s enj oyed by the hilarity .
If y ou have a good watch you consult it many times a

day If you have a good conscience y ou should consult it
.
,
many times a day to keep in touch with the hands o f God .
By a life of careful living you can transform a ,

l ow
l i f ed face into a decent human face
, \
.
When frogs are c r o ki n g kindle a fire ; how s oo n th ey

,
are all silent ; thus truth silences the liar ( Longfell o w ) . .
A plai n hand is a good ,

r e cco m m en d a t i on , i n all y o u r
wr itings .
More danger touching your happiness in be i ng too

careful than not quite careful enough
, .
S urface C hristianity consists of good breeding .
I f you live in a grumbling street move out into the

thanksgiving street and your temporal and spirital health
,
will be better .
Nothing on earth is more contagious than laughing

"
.
Y o u are subj ect to catch it as far as you can hear it O h .
w ha t a medicine it is f o r dyspepsia .
The Heaven on earth for school children is from six ,
t o twelve years In going t o school t o a good teacher they

.
,
are as free and happy as the birds o f the air .

He who cannot climb the m o un t a i n , m u s t

.
stay in the
valley .
Who so keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth ,
his soul from troubles .
There is nothing little to the really great spirit

, .
( Dick
The best friends we have are our converted enemies ;

we give th em a Godlike victory when w e forgive th em .
Middle aged ladies should wear q uiet colors in dress

,
A good and merry heart doth good like a medicine , .
A contented man is always rich and happ y

, .
The poor man in his cotta g e is as happy as , t he rich

man i n h i s palace .
Uneasy l i es the head that wears the crown

, .
Much better to be a hea l t hv p easant than a sickly

,
Eat sparingly and defy the physician .
Live not to eat but eat to live

, .
Abstinence is the best medicine

, .
Life is too short to learn more than one business well

, .
The remembrance of a well spent life is sweet .
W histles in the morning calling time to workmen has

, ,
much to do to create a systemized civilization in reckless

commun i ti es
.
.
”
166 BO OK OF P RO V E RBS .
In writing love letters to your g i r l grammar i s n ot t he ,

“
question but the question is : Do es she lov e me or i s s he
only fooling m e ?I f s he i s and has gone back on me I W i l l
,
,
, ,
kil l mys el f .
Peo p le w ho a e a l l the time talking about setti ng it up

r
,
the same as beer agents ; they are the dev i l s fo rerunner s

’
ar e .
her bel ov ed grandeur is bea u

'
N a t ur e in ti ful beyon d ex ,
pression ; she laughs all the time .
To put away for a rainy day when the coff er is f ull ,

and
no rain in sight .
Noah W eb ster said knowledge is po wer ,

. T he s choo l
hou s e i s t he cultivator of this power .
When you feel good the laugh comes as easily as roll

,
in g o ff a l o g .
O m;
drop of ink put in the right direction may con
, ,
v ert a nation It may also pervert a nation

. .
T w a d d l ei n g and telling s hady stories is mental , food

.
that i s hard t o digest for intelligent minds .
The taller the tree the thinner the bark . The fairer the
lad y the harder to s park ( D Du ff ) . . .
Providen ce will not plant and hoe your potatoes but ,
W i l l provide rain a n d sunshine to make them grow .
T he
l ov e of c hildren is purely genuine . The love in
the K ingd om of G od is not any purer .
O h the pure love for little Nellie when she was laid
, ,
in the silent tomb .
G reat men are not always good m en . Washington was

a great and a good man combined .
B OO K O F PR O V ERBS .
1 67
ere are two good ambitions good and bad go od am

Th ; ,
bitio u is glorious and bad ambition is dev i l i sh

,
.
A goo d pol icem an keeps a l l plac es o f danger sa fe 5 a

ood Christian keeps al l p l a c e s o f dan ger s afe
'
g
.
I f yo u put y our wil l with God s will it will not be l on g ’

,
u ntil they wil l be done in earth as it is in Heaven .
Truck trains are side tracked to make way for the Presi
-
d ent s train
’
Do n t permit truck t rai ns on y our track ; be
.
’
a Pres ident .
’
When on t he r ace course don t st art on the wro ng end ; ,
i n the race cours e of life be v ery careful that you don t

’
s tart at the wron g en d ; be sure that y ou are right then g o ,
it with a l l your might .
Every thing plen ty makes prodigal ,

s on s .
Paul to ld Timothy t o”s tir u p hi s reli gi on ; Paul ,

t he
hostler told the t op e r t o stir up his appetite for the n ew
w
hotel .
G o d ha s gi v en u s many gi fts holding , us accountabl e

f or the i mprovement of every one .
j ny Lind said when she sung her s weet s on g she

en , ,
l ook d God in the face : in all our works w e s hould look

e
God i n the face then our earthly music will be s weet
, .
There are many people that are nothing but an a d ve r

t i s e m en t i n l i fe ; be the owner of the plant and do busi ,
nes s on your own responsibility .
People do not lack s trength ; they lack will .

( V ictor
H ugo ) .
A cow ha s
two horn s but can t play on one ; watch
’
,
’
that y ou don t come out a t the small end of the horn .

168 B OOK O F PRO V E RBS .
The demand and supply regulate the prices in all
things All the powers cannot chan ge this l a w

.
.
A continuou s cheerfulness is the best index to , wis
Under the m a gnetism of friendship the modest ,

man
become s bold the lazy active the irritable peaceful
, , .
Like angel s visits few and ’

,
fa r between .
( M axim ) .
The man w ho seeks good f o r good s sake though ,

’
disappointed is s ure to have a good reward at last

, .
The reward the man gets for lying is that he is not , be

l i e ve d when he tells the truth .
A man is n ot hing more or less than a grown up baby , ,
developed in all part s .
L et bu r
reason not our s ense be the rule of our con , ,
duct speak i n g act i on and behavior

, , .
Music the g reatest good that mortal man knows ; all

,
of heaven we have below .
The di ff erence between death and sleep is not much ; ,
s leep is the hal f way station -

.
W h a t may appear the greatest calamities often turn “
out g re a t blessings .
T he m a n that has no virtue ever envieth virtue in ,
other s .
( Bacon ) .
I t is t oo late to lock the stable door when the steed is ,
stolen .
( Lilly ) .
I f the blind lead the blind ; both shall fall into the ditch .
( St . Matthew ) .
170 B OOK OF P ROVE RBS .
There are persons w ho are able to conver se with you ,
and at the same time play a di fficult piece of mu 5 1 c We call .
this intuition i n music .
Humble yourself before God and man then you can ,
expect honor .
When your husband does you a kind act thank him ,
and encourage him in his work and let him kno w that you
love him .
N o man knows where Moses was buried . No on e
knows where he will go after he is dead .
M any men have very good traits of character and ,

at
the same time you find them very mean men .
”
Take the honor and poetry from war and you hav e " ,
the blackest cold blooded butchery and murdering General

,
- .
“
Sherman g a v e i t the right name when he said : War i s
,
hell .
God instituted o
"
the body The L ord s
sleep t rebuild .
’
supper was institut ed to rebuild the spiritual bo d y the soul — .
en w e know so little a bout the future we should

Wh ,
do all we can to i mprove the pres ent .
Looking into the telescope at t he wrong end makes the ,
i nstrument a perfect failur e Even so in men when placed

.
in positi ons in which they are n ot fitted for they are p erfect ,
failures .
A fat goose to be picked is to develop a law suit with a

,
r i ch man who t hinks himsel f smart enough for sharp law

y e r s to fleece hi m .
The earth is spinning along in her orbit around t he

sun at the rate of twenty million miles per s econd and
, ,
not
varyi ng one m i nute in her appointed time .

B OOK OF P RO VE RBS . 171
-
A pretty young lady shows her beauty more clearl y i n a

p lain dress than when dressed
,
in the finest S i lks to capt i vate ,
a good man .
The headlight is the forerunner of the train . The

spirit of God —light is the forerunner of a good man
- —
.
Notwith s tanding the many sources which the M e d it e r

r a n ea n sea has in gaining water it don t change All i s ,
’
.
taken up by evaporation .
Great wealth is like carrying a great load It adds only .
to unhappiness Just enough of wealth to answer our daily

.
wants develops the best happiness

, .
Insulting people is like treading on hot coals ; you are

sure to j um p in both cases .
By their fid gi t y and fussing some women are as un ,
happy as a fish out of w a t er making their presence a state ,
of perfect misery .
No one w a s ever lost on a straight road unless he was ,
a fool or a blind man ; no one that follows the laws of right

e o u s n e ss was ever lost .
All creation is made better under t he influence of cheer

fulness .
Handling business men at the proper time is more than

, ,
hal f o f the battle .
I f you break a w in d o w glass you can t put it together ; ’
your character i f i t IS broken you can t put it togeth er

o o
’
, ,
aga i n .
Better a boy or girl unborn than go through life illit ,

erat e
.
Proverbs are the wisdom of ages .

They are slaves who dare not be in the right .
Reason
s whole pleasure lies in three words health
’ —
,
hope and competence .
T he body is the on l v machine that oils itself .
An all around man m ust have somethin g to think of

-
higher than himself .
Do n ot fill the mouth too full in eating .
When a thing don t suit ’
y o u ,
say so quietly .
The greatest inventions emanate from very small be

ginni n gs ; don t shy at small things
’
.
We live in an age o f mental and physical dyspepsia on ,
account of over eating .
From the hour o f the invention of printing books not

‘
, ,
kings were the rule i n f the world ; weapons forged in the

,
mind were to supplant the sword and the battle axe .
The Lord is my shepherd ; I shall not want .

( Bibl e )
That which is transpla nted too oft en does not prosper , .
Trust in the Lord forever .

( Bibl e )
Love is the master key that opens every man s heart ’

.
Conceit mav pu ff a man up but nev er props him up , .
A deaf person always stamps his feet while walking .
Re d
h aired people are generall y good natured ; but
-
when they are aroused they are great fighters

, .
Poverty and weakness go hand in hand .

B OOK O F PRO VE RB S .
Every on e desires to live long and happy . A g rand l aw

in n ature .
Civilization ben ds to accommodate the environs .
All good people are anxious to make a sensible recor d

in life .
To steal thri ft is a cur s e but it is a ble s sin g when got

,
ten h onestl y .
The cl imate near the sea is not s o extrem el y cold or
warm hence the best for health and i nvalid s

’
.
,
I n di s guise Peter the Great worked in Holland for

,
a
purpose .
When a man lacks health wealth and friends his h e , ,
i s at a l ow ebb ; hope is gone .
Your future life depends immensely on y our surround

in g friend s .
When your brain lacks blood you need much sleep a n d

electricity also much rich food and no excitement to exhaus t
,
blood .
W as liabl e t o be corrupted by bad bo oks as ba d

e a re
company ; judge a book not by the cove r n d r a ma n by hi s
, ,
clothin g .
Taxation without representation i s very unjii s t hence

'
the W i do w w ho is q ualified shou l d have a vote .
T hed a y s of our deep est troubles a re t he days o f our

,
r enova ti on ; adapted to brin g us in clos er tou ch and com

munion with God .
S o me people are always on the look out -

fo r an ea sy j ob
to turn up ; man y times they turn up in j ail , .
B OO K O F PR O V E R BS . 75
a y oung husband i s sad find out the cause of the

W h en ,
t rouble and sympathize D o all y u c

o an to r move the trou
e -
i
.
bl e you m a y save a divorce

,
.
When a woman marries a man the fi rst t hi ng she ,
s hould do is to find o u t his whims and as much as p o s sibl e ,
keep them t r i m m e d n i c el y They a r e the key to hi s inner

i '
n ature .
Mirth ,
is the embro ider y of a l l the actions of human
The Spirit of the Almighty is within us The Spirit '
of the Al mighty is around us and the S pirit is above us , .
In all conversation and business a cert ain amount , _

of
m irth is as necessary as oil is to mach i nery .
Wisdom is ha rder to get , an d to keep bright ,

than
r iches .
Y ou ho ul d
wear out your good clothes first E a t
s n ot
‘
’
what is s e t before you Don t as k for the best piece of pie
,
.
when y ou seat yourself at the table When grace is asked .
a t the table show you rsel f a man

, .
S ome
old Christians think and say that the s tron g s alt
n ess in the Dead S e a comes from Lot s wife
’
, , .
Take the romance from the life of Washin g ton a n d ,
you have the l i fe of the most notoriou s rebel that ever live d
i n America .
The man who has a fe w good friends is only loved , bv

a few and hat ed by many
, .
Many birds than can soar the highest spend the mo st ,
of their tim ei n t he g r e un el a n d rocks ; even so in men many

- f
e e
days in small o ffices unnoticed who might s oar ,
in the high atm osphere of fame .

176 B O OK OF PROVE RB S .
Sweet spring full ,

of sweet days , and sweet roses .
( Herber t )
When y ou want a prompt an swer enclose a stamped ,
envelope addressed ,
.
When yo u r mind hesitates your head shakes then stop , ,
an d meditate .
When all things are prosperous in your behal f then ,

is
the time to prepare for a crisis .
Dyspeptic s never lift their feet in a sprightly manner .
lives that have worth are

O ur ,
n ot graded by days or
years ; but by acts that never die .
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble ,
thoughts ( S y n d ey )
. .
The fin e s t lan guage when babies commenced to prat

‘
tle the worst grammar was perfect

,
.
The snail does not sing ; the lazy man don t bloom ’
.
W here l aw en ds there tyranny begins

, .
( Pitt )
The tre e of l iberty only grows when watered by the ,
bloo d o f tyrants .
T he q uicker prosperity is gained in anything , the soon

er it dies .
W ool ,
sticking in a sheep dog s teet h is evidence ’
,
a ga i nst his moral character

O
’
A lazy man don t make a good grave digger ; he sits
too much and quite too soon .
A happ y old age is the result of a good y oun g life .

B OOK OF P RO VE RBS .
1 77
The safety of the people depends on the subj ugation

of all criminals .
It is the value of your knowled ge that makes you val

'
n able .
A f o ol
'
and hi s money are soon parted

,
.
An ape may chance to sit among doctors .
There is no fool so bad as an old fool ,

.
Know th y sel f p r esume not God to scan

,
.
Knowledge is power .
( Noah Webster ) .
Knowledge i n youth is wisdom in old age ,

.
He that boasts of his knowled ge proc laims his ,

i g n or
ance .
A fool is bu s Y in e ve r v one s business but his own

’
.
He that knows the least commonly presumes to know ,
the most .
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upr i ght .
There is no a rt t hat can make a fool wise . He w i ll

never set the town on fire .
There is no royal road to learning .
The best blood by learning is refined

, , .
O n a long j ourney a straw is heavy , .
Education polishes good natures and corrects bad ones .
To travel makes wise men better and fools worse , .

The true darkness among the people is ignorance .
nly a vigorous brain and a great nervous system is

O of
great importance .
As the suicides and insanities increase among any p eo
ple in the same proportion civilizat i on i ncreases

,
.
Envy is one o f the most hateful feelings it is found in ,
all living creatures .
Travel is a great source of wisdom .
History repeats itself .
Isaac Newton s reason w a s aroused by seeing t he

S ir
’
apple fall t o the ground which caused him to reveal the

,
w orld the laws of gravity .
Direct your conversation as much as possible to things , ,
perta i n i ng to the person to whom you are conversing

‘
.
They laugh that w in .

( Shakespeare ) .
There wa s a laughing devil in his eye .

( Byron ) .
Conspicuous by his absence .

( Tacitus ) .
A bsence makes t he heart grow fonder ( Beatty )

'
'
. .
Young men for war ; old men for counsel .

( O ld
Maxim ) .
The shape of your head is the shape of your mind , .
O h
woman , " Lovely w o man " Nature made thee .
( S hake spear e )
Wretched soul , bruised with adversity ( S ha k e s
p eare ) .
1 80 B OOK O F PBO VE RBS .
To destroy a stomach by continual medicine taking is ,
as much of a sin as too much whiskey dri nk i ng .
It requires no ability to become a drunkard ; but it re
quires a patriotic e ff ort t o become a thorough absta i ner .
To let liquor alone on your own account is sel fi sh ; but ,
i f we do it for ou r neighbor s sake it is noble Godl i ke

’
, ,
.
Strong drink makes a stubborn and a frivolous charac ,
Children in Japan are taught to write with both hands

, ,
Sel f e ff ort makes a better and a stronger education

-
, ,
than all the colleges can develop .
W ork while you work play while you play ; for

,
an d
that is the way to be cheerful and gay .
I f you r husband is j ealous of you remove the cause as ,
soon as possible ; it may cause a frightful tragedy .
We l ea rn to know better the next time by thinking ,
over the past li fe .
Di fficulties are n ot calculated to discourage but ,

t o en
courage ( Channing )
. .
The number of tools sin has is innumerable ; the devil

has a key to handle all of them .
It appears marvelous that such a volume of knowled g e

ca n be stored systematically in a human brain .
By adding French Latin and Hebrew to a woman s

, ,
’
tongue very often un fit s her to be in a house

, .
God organ i zed the camel to c r os s the desert the same ,
as the steamers are organized to c r os s the ocean .

B OO K O F PR O V E R BS . 181
The more serious a man lives within the more , p l a i n h e
l i ves without .
Sweet sleep is the sign o i a goo d conscience

, ,
a nd a
g ood preparation for the Kingdom of God .
The most noxious weed grows the most prolific ; t he

bl acker the vice the faster it grows .
The riches t and happiest man IS the one w ho has the

,
l argest n umber of Heavenly blessings in his favor for the ,
many goo d deeds done .
The sharpness of the property lines are an index to ,
the value of the property ; sharpness of sectarian lines is the ,
v alu e of the religious line s o f the church .
I f all the inhabitants of a nation were wealthy in . , a

v ery short while the nation would be a weakling .
It is not good to be happy lon g at a time ; there are too

ma ny temptatio ns where too much prevails .
There is no credit in being defeated ; but there is credit

i n being victorious the next time .
We need more example and not , so much instru ction .
Boy s ra is ed in the country crowd out b oy s raised in

a ,
the C i t i e s i n all positions of life

, .
A minister preaches hi s best s e r nt on , by a good example

m his daily life
Good adv i ces are all right but a good example is much
,
better.
Crisp sayings are like gems that crack

, .
Rich in character is better than rich in estate

, .
182 B OOK O F P ROVE RB S .
I f you want to have a thing done to please you do ,

it
yours el f .
When the horse is stolen it is too late to put a lock ,

on
the door When all is spent it is too late to save

.
,
.
The counsel from the goose bone is : pay as you go ;

the Philosopher s stone contains the same version
’
.
Every day means a short li fe and although short as i t ,
may seem it may contain a great step in the history of you r

,
e arthly or Heavenly happiness

, .
Learn to live ,
and l i ve to learn .
( O l d Maxim ) .
Nothing had if nothing ventured , .
Woeful want is produced by willful waste

, .
Rich merchants are produced from quick returns .
Contentment with little is , , the greatest wealth on

earth .
Keep a close watch on the a ff airs of your l i t e and G od ,
will not let vou stick .
Those who go sorrowing , a re the ones that are con

t i n u a l l v t o r r ow i n g .
M ak e ha y while the sun shin e s .

( Maxim ) .
Nothing goes so far as politeness and costs so littl e , .
The best preventative from temptation is continual , oc

c u p a t i on .
As plain as the nose on a man s face ’

.
As cross as a bear with a sore head .

1 B O OK O F PBO VE RBS .
Too nzu c h discussion is better than not enough a l ,
t hough there m a y be sharp words on the subj ect Sharp .
word s are the liver pill s in discussion ; they are the renova
tors Placid and sweet discussion produces holes for t he
.
devil t o get through .
There is n ot near s o much fun in flat land as there is i n

hill y l and It flat land there is t o o much system and arith
.
metic n ot enough variety ; t he l a u g h is killed by system

‘
.
,
What a large percentage have rheumatism when t he

“
wife says will y o u take the lawn mower and spell me a
,
little while .
I f you are sick repining will not help you but make
, ,
you worse A l l y o u need is a good whole souled laugh

.
-
.
Some men are born great ; some by industry becom e ,
great and some have greatness thrust upon them

, .
You trust in God health a good wife grit and

, , , e c on o
my a n d your success is sure .
There i s always a conflict between good and bad Whe n .
w e do the best we know how G o d at last will lead us to ,
victory .
The l on g race is n ot to the swift or to the strong but it

-
IS to the one w ho is the nearest right in the sight of God and
The man w ho cannot appreciate m u s rc i s to be piti ed ,
for the he a venly li fe he is almost a blank .
No author uttered so many pithy sayings as Shake

speare .
M any islands are formed from the bodies of coral also ,

form i ng grand harbors Many of these islands and harbors
.
r e qu rr e d thousands of years of constant labor .

B OOK OF P RO VE RBS .
The Puritans were the most zealous and aggress i ve i n

their religious belief hence their impress on the Ameri can
,
Republ i c is found to this day ,

.
Spare the rod ,

an d spoil the child .
Ifis not any more di fficult to be engaged in an honest

and legitimate business than one that requires much Chl ,
chancery and low trickery .
Batt les train soldiers for war ; storms train mariners

for ocean li fe .
A blind man cann ot care for his clothi ng ; a man spirit

u a l l y blind cannot care for his spiritual outfit
-
.
In some people the spirituality is so largely d eveloped

, ,
that it is a l rr o s t im possible to do wrong .
A hope like a flying kite when going higher is very

, , ,
pleasant ; but i f t he s tring break an d the kite fa lls the pleas

.
.
,
ure is quickl y checked .
Easier going than comin g if you have ventured too

'
A woman can a ff ord to gi ve her husband more pres

ents than he can her because s he cha r g e s them all to him
,
'
A dog thought a stick of dynamite a bone ; it was his

last think .
The spendthrift is always hard ru n for money .
The reason we do not feel the press ure of the air is ,
becaus e it is equal on all sides o f the body ; fifteen pounds

to the square inch .
The respect that old age commands at the present is ,

very l l m l t ed .
A man who has consumption walks largely on his ,
toes .
Maxims are the condensed good sense of a nation

, , .
Age does not improve pe d igree .

( O l d sayi ng ) .
The man w ho has liver complaint takes short , ,

i r r eg u
lar steps .
R ead not to contradict and refute but to weigh and to ,
consider .
The power of invention has been conferred by nature

upon a few ; upon these few t h e power of progress de ,
pends .
For civilization the pen ,

is a thousand fold more -
p o w
e r fu l than the cannon .
Happy is the man who lives in harmony with his Cre

ator .
We can t see o r feel time ; it is the medium direct from

’
the hands of the Creator to regulate the operations of the

,
universe .
Long steps ; la rge soundness and liberality .
Any animal that makes a soft cooing sound is tame , ,
and he r bi v er ou s .
Any animal that makes a sharp and shrill norse is ,
bloodthirsty .
Anything that looks wrong ,

and s ounds wron g , is
wrong before God and man .
The germ in an acorn for a large oak tree can t be , ,

’
seen ; the soul i n a child for a great mind can t be seen

.
’
, , .
1 88 B OOK OF P ROVE RB S .
You can t get an i nsurance policy on your character ;

’
you must risk the Gospel engine to save you from the fiery ,
place .
What is n ot wanted is dear at a penny

,
.
M ake the best ou t of a bad bargain .
To work for a dead horse .
Avoid a slanderer as you woul d a scorpion .
To use caustic language in business should in v ariably ,
be avoided .
Entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained

,
angels .
A s welcome as snow in the s u rnm e
The
cee d i n g
mills
fin e
of
.
the god s g ri nd s l o w l y . bu t the y g rind ex
Be j ust before , y ou are generous .
Honor t hv father and thy mot he r .
A good nam e is r a t l et r to be chosen than g reat riches .
The w a y to fam e i s l ik e t he w a y to Hea en ; thro ugh

v
much tr i bulation .
S traws show how t he “ind bl o ws .
Go to the ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be

, ,
happy .
Like angel visits few and far between , .
He l et the ca t out of the bag .

BO O K OF P ROVE RBS .
1 89
T h e m a n that is in every good cause a kicker is ,

an
u gly drone under c e e l s of pr o gress .
The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice ,

.
Vi rtue and happiness are mother and daughter

,
.
H ew ho is guided by virtue cannot do wrong

,
.
There neve r was a good war nor a bad peace ,

.
W illful waste brings woeful want :

,
Q uick come quick go ,

.
Lose a leg rather than life

,
.
Careless shepherds make many a ,
C aution is the parent

,
of safety .
I f t hou deales t w ith

-
a fox thi nk of his tricks

, .
Honey is sweet but the bee stings

,
.
’
We don t know under which stone the s corpion lurks .
The sleeping fox catches no poultry .
A rainbow in t he morning gives the , s hepherd warn
A rainbow at night is the shepherd s deli g ht

,
’
.
To talk about the change of weather is the talk of ,
The weakest go to t he wall .
To dance to every man s ’

pipe .
1 90 B OOK OF PROVE RBS .
When a child I spake as a child ; I understood as a

,
child but when I became a man I put away childish

, ,
things ( St Paul )
. . .
There are men who are like a flock of wildgeese in a

thunder storm dashed hither and thither and at last landed
, ,
“
”
in a pond and then cooked Hence : His goose was.
’
cooke d f
The man who preaches and prays for temperance and ,

“
then votes for whiskey candidates corresponds with the ,
“
Bible expression : Thou art neither hot n or cold ; hence ,
I will spew thee out of my mouth .
B etter be without a talent than to make use of it in ,
the wrong direction .
Wise thoughts that take deep root by and by develop ,
part of our nature and prove a great blessing .
All trul v great men can give a good toast at the proper
,
Every great mon ument in t he world is is an emina

,
tron from enthusiasm .
A picture is a poem without words .
Educated people s wages average ’
, 47 per cent higher

.
than illiterates .
Purity is better than popularity ; true merit is better

than honor .
Wealth brings friends to nations as well as indi vidu ,
Females should do all they can to keep their appear

ance fresh and young without show in dress— more than
common sense demands .
19 2 B OOK OF P ROVE RB S
Who will not feed the cats mu s t feed the mice ,
and
A miserly father makes a Prodigal Son

,
.
Beauty is but skin deep . Beauty vanishes ; virtue en
dures .
She that is born a beauty ,

is hal f married .
From small beginnings come great things

,
.
L earn to creep before you run .
A bad beginning often makes a good ending

,
.
The stream never rises above the spring s head ’

.
He wa s born with a silver spoon in his

,
m outh .
Change of pasture makes fat calves .
Never refuse a good o ff er .
K eep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee

, .
( Frank
Kill two birds with one stone .
That which is everybody s business is nobody s busi

’ ’
nes s .
A nimble S ixpence is better than a slow shillin g .
A s busy as a hen with on e chick .
A good occupation is better than a golden girdle .
The worth of a thing is what it wi ll bring in the mar

,
93
A n old man is twice a child ,

.
Speak well of the dead .
Who shall decide when the

‘
,
doctors disagree ? ( Pope ) .
Ca re is the greatest enemy to life ; it kills more than

work .
The young geese should be careful when the fox is ,
preachin g .
Religion ,
like mon ey tha t di d n ot cos t much , don t
last l on g .
Have a place for everyt hing and everything in its ,
place .
Never forget to ask pardon for all wongs and mis t a kes .
The man w ho revolves around himsel f all the ti m e in ,
a short time wears out the cogs .
No one w ho has decided to be with God is ,

ever d i s
appointed
The kingdom of God is within us .
There is no higher career possible than ,

to m ake a
home beautiful .
Marrying into blood relati onship should be discour

aged In some cases where the temperaments are con
.
geni al i t may do fairly well

, .
Hypnotic in fl uence and mutual love are two things ;

, ,
hyp n ot rs m may i nduce you to marry any creature O ur .
good mothers called this influence the power to charm ;

two sickly persons of the same ailment should not marry
, ,
together .
B OO K OF P RO V E RBS .
Be sur e to h a v e the ri ght m a n i n t he ri g ht p l a c e .
Make a fire of straw you have m u c h smoke

, , but littl e
wa r mth .
Y ou c an t s a v e yours e l f with sa w but i t i s good t o

t
‘
’
a
sa w wood .
Prosperity gains friends ; adversity t ries th em .
To make both end s meet .
I f it were a s nak e it would bit e

, y ou .
Be on t he s a fe side .
Pr epa r e for i y day

‘
a ra n .
L ea st sa id ,
is s oon s e t mend ed .
D is c retion i n s p ee ch i s mor e t ha n e l oquence
’
A p enn y s a ved is a penny g ained .
Ta k e ca r e of t he p en ce ; t he p oun d s wi l l t a ke ca r e of
t he m s e l v es .
It ta k es t w o t o m a k e a q ua rrel .
H e fights hi s ow n s ha dow .
D e ep rive rs mo ve in silenc e ; s h a l l o w br ooks a re noi s y .
Re li gi ou s nten ti on i s t he d e vi l
’
co , s ha rves t .
T a ke out o f on e p ocket and p u t i t i n t he ot her .
Wit hout p r a yer , no w or k i s wel l beg un .
D e s pe r a e t d i s ea s e s , re q u ire d es pera te r emed i es .

Worldly aims must be crucified before we ,

ca n a tt a in
spiritual bliss .
The science of Chemistry is the greatest as a branch

,
of human development .
V ery often noted characters are idiots excepting one ,
preeminent trait of character .
More great men are born in the spring than any ,
other time .
When w e have n othing t o take hold of we are , a pt to

embrace God rather than die in despair
,
.
It was the last straw that broke the camel s back .
( O l d Maxim ) .
Love is like corn it thrives when cultivated .
Riche s have wings that is the reason they someti m es

,
The happiness and beautiful songs of the birds de ,
clare that the air is their Heaven .
Cheerfulness to a few may give gladness to many

, .
Better be a man than a millionaire .
A nonymous letters are the weapons of cowards

, .
Character is the poor man s savin g bank ’

.
The salt of life is the activity in a useful vocation

, .
Economy is o f pric e l ess v alue through a busy li fe .
Beware of hasty engagements ; nine times out of t en,

they pro v e failures .
Sat an ha s many ways to entrap to sin ; but the most

p rolific is the one that carries the key to its name and sa i d ,
“
key is nearly a lways l ost w hrs —
In the last two yea rs , 3 o

,
o oo wives were murdered by
d runken husbands .
Whatever y ou do , do with all your might .
Penmanship is the queen o f arts .
The more kno wledge you have of the Creator and his
laws the more powerful you are
,
.
Like magnets all gr eat leaders mag netize communi

,
Egotists in the day of Solomon were called fools

, , .
’
The foundation o f a man s usefulness is the value ,
o f his word ; it is the golden cha r m of his character .
Too much land prosperity may be a great nuisance to

a man .
Prefer solitude before base associations

, .
Us e fuln es s is the badg e of a noble gentleman .
Go od health is better than wealth

, .
( M E Crock
.
) . .
Do thy duty that is best ; leave unto the L ord the rest
, .
( M E C rock ) 1
. . .
‘
To gain the most perfect happiness in matrimony the ,
laws o f nature are the most perfect guide because they ,
are the laws of God .
A very small woman should not marry a very large

man .
B OO K or P ROV E RBS .
A ma n wit h a baby m o u th , ha s a ba b yi s h d i s pos it ion .
A broad st ra i ght m outh , and li p s

,
e ven l y proporti on e d ,
a re t he i nd e xe s o f a m a n l y chara ct e r .
You as yo u think p e r fectl y ha ppy ;

s ee t wo p er s ons , ,
examine and notwithstanding you find a c i nder i n the e ye

, , ,
and -sha kin g i s dange rou s l y unhealthy

H and s houl d be
a vo ided unless at noonday pray e r m e etin g
,
.
The s mith s m a re ’
, a nd t he cobl er
’
s wi fe , a r e a l wa y s
wors t s h od .
The near e r to the bone , the sweeter t he m ea t .
Alwa y s be s ur e t h a t y ou ha v e t he r i g ht s a d d l e , on t he
rig h t h o r s e .
It not t he hen that ackles t he m ost tha t l a ys t he

‘
18 c ,
mos t e ggs ;
The mewing ca t is n e v er a good m ou s e r .
There are many ways o f killing a d og , wi th ou t chok

in g hi m to death with butt e r .
If y ou hold the ba g in stealing apple s , you a re a s gu i l ty

as t he on e that picks the apples and puts th em in to t he ba g .
Be s u re that you cut yo u r coat in ha rm on y wi th t he

a m ount of c loth y ou h a v e .
Take thing s a lways by t he s mo oth ha n dl e .
I t is ha rd to teach an old d og n ew t r icks ; l i ke a ca t ,

he will a lw a y s li ght on hi s f eet .
Al wa ys a cc omm oda te you rse l f to t he s u rroun d i n g s

an d t o t he time s .
200 B O OK OF PROVE RB S .
V irtu e ,
pushed too far becomes a fault
,
.
The habit of doin g hard things prepares us ,

f or t he
crisis of li f e .
Every home and every li fe have their,

o wn atm os
p he re .
N 0 one can rise nearer to G od , a n d not draw others high

'
er .
( Flower ) .
O bey the inner voice of your nature and you are all
,
right .
I f you are happy on earth it is certain you will , be

happy in Heaven .
The greatest force in the universe works quietly whic h ,
is electricity .
Intemperance never rules over a happy home .
The death of intemperance would mean happiness to

millions .
To read without reflecting is like eating without di ,
g e s t i n
g ( Burke
.
) .
Sins like knots on trees are an index to rot ten spots

, , .
The blacker the sk ns are the sooner they kill them

i
,
Q P IVC S .
All evil brings its own destruction .
A hog on i ce i s helpless even so is an independent

, an d
selfish man .
when an g ry remain q uiet until you have gained an

,
eq u i libriu m
o
B OOK OF PROVE RBS . 201
A good word is as soon sai d as a bad one , .
No part of nature has power to do anything o f it sel f ,

“
all l i fe power comes from God .
Love ma kes x
fool s wits ,
’
and wits fools .
Love makes time pa ss faster t han anything else .
Love in old bachelors like fire , 111 old wood once start ,
ed is hard to be put out

, .
s
Extraord i nary gen i us i s an i ndex to d eg neracy and IS e ,
always found in disproportioned p ersons .
The sunshine of the soul is the outgro wth o f stormy

n ights o f sorrow .
Lunatics i diots Indians and women are not permitted

, ,
to vote Brother y o u don t wa nt your sister classified in

.
,
’
the list .
The English have mad e drunkards to one Chris

t i an i n t he i r missionary labor among the heathen .
The life between mirth and grief should be so tempered

as to gi ve a sweet bloom to all time .
B efore w e can have a pr oper growth we must be root ,
ed and grounded so deeply in divine love that the light of ,

Heaven i s all the time befo re us .
Great knowledge brings great responsibilities

.
The night o f sorrow is as necessary as the noonday sun

The growth 1 s most at night in all divinity .
Appetite i a p p et i t e for stomach or soul the great prin

s
c 1p l e i n o u r l rf ;
e IS to have it satisfied with good natural
healthy sp i ri tual food or physical
,
, ,
.
General Sherman said : War is Hell The General .
was never henpecked by a loud mouthed woman ; had he -
been he would not have been such a crank on kissing w o

,
men .
company with Kings and Q ueens of hu man

K eep
thoughts in a short time you are one of them .
Keep your mind filled with l oving thoughts and , y o u
will be loving .
Music gives a glimpse of Heaven more clearly than can

be found on earth .
Never do evil that good may come .
O aks fall when reeds brave the storm .
He that endures with patience is a conqueror .
In many ca s e s t s i l en c e carries more eloquence than

speech .
In the company of strangers circumspection in speak ,
i ng 1 8 an ornament .
S hort and sweet .
’
Tis better to be brief than tedious .
The best training a boy can have is to be able to meet

great responsibilities .
The dogs that bark l o ud seldom bite .
The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air .
O
tooth broke out of a saw will destroy the use of
ne
the saw ; one bad act in your life will destroy the use of yo ur
character .
201 B OO K O F P RO V E RB S .
They love the least that let men know it .
Who love too much hate in like extreme .
M any big words and many feathers go to the poun d

, ,
.
Long li fe is assured to those that are good and obey the
It is n ot money that makes t he man rich but content ,
ment with w hat he has .
The early bird catches the worm .
To succeed one must be very prudent

,
.
( Napoleon ) .
Nations sicken and die like men .
Real worth cannot be attained without courageou s

worki ng ,
The law which governs all law is the law of n a tur e , ,
or the l a w of God .
Let reason and kindness be united and they seldom ,
fa i l to ca rry the point .
The importance of a man is in what he know s , .
T he c reation of a thousand fore sts may depend on on e

a corn .
A man is never too old to learn .

( Middleto n ) .
Childhood shows the man , as the m ornin g s how s

( Wilson ) .
A good word is as ea sily s aid as a ba d on e .
A clear conscience fea rs n o a cc u sa ti on .

B OO K O F PR O V ER BS . 205
y o If
u don t govern
’
your passions in a short time t he v
g overn your reason and consc i ence .
When we kn ow that our future depends on our pr esent

l ife is it not strange that we take so little interest i n ou r
s elves ?
,
W hen you practice temperan ce in your young life , y o u

n eed not abstain when in old age .
,
?
I f God is for us who can be against us ( Rom .
No mus 1 c rs sweeter than to hear the dear little girl sin g ,
her little baby sister to sle ep It is more charming than the

.
most classic m usic even more t han from the greatest m u

,
s i c a l college in the world .
Sects are formed not by reason but by the surround ,

‘
ings no di fference how inconsistent they are

, .
Hunting h a ppiness like singing psalms to a dead horse ,
is slow in coming .
’
Don t buy a pig in the poke .
Your honesty i s an index to your character and credit .
G od built the B ermuda islands from coral to produce ,
early vegetation to supply the U nited S tates
’
Ta ke all the lad i es with all their artistic skill and they ,
can t make a spider w eb The young spider that never s a w

-
.
a web can make as good a one as the old spider can

, All .
done by artistic ski ll governed by instinct

, .
The w o rst foe a man has to contend with is an ger ; it

d estroys all i n all that belongs to man .
W e n ever know t he wo rth of water until the well is

206 B OOK OF PROV E RB S
Trees grow strong by wrestling with the winds Boy s .
and girls grow strong by battling with the rough edges o f

hardships .
Hhou s e children remain as long as they live and

ot ,
n ev
er amount to much in e d u ca t ron work or bu s rn e s s

, .
God tells the people when the missionary field is ready ;

he discover s gold or something else ; a great rush of people
goes ; missionaries go and heathendom goes
, .
Every good act you do God gives you credit until , by

an d by your face shines
, .
T the extent intoxicants change a face ; to the same

o
extent the brain and mind is changed .
I f you are on the dark side polish it trans form it and

, , ,
make it the brightest side .
N obo dy but a bad and unreliable citizen sells his vote .
Ba d temper is a s nap of the old man s teeth touching ’
country of brimst one .
The Cre a tor knows no death .
A deaf per s on alway s stamps his feet while walking .
Children are smooth but age comes wrinkl e s and scars

, ,
ap pear ; n ot unlike tree s by and by knots and decay set in

,
a n d death fo llow s .
Ea s y come ea s y go
,
. O
( dl M axim ) .
O ften gre a t endings ha v e small s ources .
T he m a n who has very light hair and eyes and m arries ,
a lady of very black hair and eyes has made a mistake ; they,
are opposites and are very uncongenial .

BO OK or PROV E RBS .
A ll wealth o f this planet don t amount t o as much

t he
’
as the interest of one penny would fr om the day o f C ai n .
In the most corrupt places law s are m o st multiplied

, .
Too many laws are always a sign of weakness .
The greater the mind the more prolific it is in

, w r iti n
good maxims .
G od never made his work s for men to amen d .

( y
D r
The s trongest passions allow us some rest but vanity ,
keeps perpetually in m otion ( Swift ) . .
In your declining years you can t write l ove stories ’

t he
s ame a s you coul d in y our clover age .
A friend should bear a friend s ’

i n fi r m i t i es ( Shake
'
. s
peare ) .
The ha ndmaid of d uty is pleasure .
Bus i ness neglected , is business lost .
Language was given to us that we m i g h t speak plea sant

words to each other .
Time and tide wait on no m an O

( dl Maxim )
'
. .
A m a n t ha t is all the tim e overrun wit h too many iron s

m the fi re 1 s sure to have some bu rn ed
o
, .
N ever dri ft but keep sailing

, .
T he man that has too m u ch hope builds too many , air

castles .
Love is the occupation of an idle man the amusem en t ,
of a busy man and a shipwreck to a sovereign

, .
BY RO N W . K IN G
210 B OO K OF PRO V E RBS .
I am an American ; I l i ve an Amer i can ; I d i e an Ame r

ican ( Webster )
. .
He that pitieth the poor lendeth to the Lord .

( Bible ) .
Every man is a King in his own back yard .
Every cock is lord in his ow n dunghill .
The hen that stays at home picks up the crumbs .
The wisest thoughts concentrated make Proverbs .
A truly great man can t be great and mean at the same

’
The young man is to be pitied that rather choose s a ,
drunkard s life than to be sober and independent

’
.
There is an uns een hand that moves in the a ffairs of

men .
A life o f ups and d owns carries more pleasant m edita

tions in old age than a quiet even life , .
The more open the Bible is taught to all the better the ,
civilization and the bette r the Christianity .
Deep down 111 the valley of superstition when books

, ,
a r e kept under lock and key inventions were consid ered the
,
work o f the devil .
The person w ho imagines all the time often turns out ,
to be a notorious liar .
The man that is always going to do somethin g great

seldom does anything .
When death is common , we often wonder that we

have escaped death so lon g .
The parties always w i n w ho are on God s side ’

.
to the ant thou sluggard ; consider her ways and

G 0 ,
be wise ( Solomon )
. .
Great press ure refines metals ; the same in man ; grea t

pressure and great 0 p p r es s 1o n are needed to refine h i m .
The very faults we condemn in ou r neighbors we often

possess ourselves .
In the year 54 B . C .
, Caesar compiled the almanac
‘
A great mistake is to buy carpets t oo good to let the

sun shine o n them .
God creates crooked trees ; He also creates crooked

men .
A golden mind stoops n ot to shows of dross .

( Shakes
peare ) .
Friendship that makes the lea st noise is the most -
use
ful
.
( Addison ) .
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do n ot

grapple with her ( S eneca )
.
.
Great men are n ot always wise (O ld Testament

.
) .
j ust as the twig is bent t he tree is inclined

( Pope
'
, .
Meet your duns with a smile and laugh at the idea of

be m g dunned .
Some of the happiest mortals are hopeless invalids

; be
cause they take lots of laughing medicine
They are happ y .
.
Gen i us unexerted is n o more enius

acorns IS a forest o f oaks g than a bushel of
( Beecher ) .
.
212 B OOK OF P ROVE RB S .
A new love drives out an old love .
When you call on your girl as soon as she yawns look ,
for your hat .
Blustering shows weakness ; quiet , self compos ure

-
shows strength .
A m a n can t be good to himself unless he is equal l y

’
good to others .
Do the best you can , a nd trust in God for the r esul t s .
It is a very poor book that can t gi ve you some good ’
’
thoughts ; likewise he is a very poor man who can t give
you some good ideas .
The feeling is left in an amputated limb for n a n y "
years ; like sinful deeds they annoy us long years after

,
wards .
A good canvasser 1 8 an independent m a n better quali

fie d for the rough side of life than a college graduat e .
Great oaks are not felled by a single stroke ; fame is n ot
r eached by a single bound .
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast .
We live in an age of mental and physical dyspep s ia on ,
account of overeating .
Great thoughts recorded g et stronger as they , g e t old

er ; they are like sauerkraut and whiskey .
Among the relics of the benighted ages ,

t he bl a ckest is
war .
Walking and working alongside of a lam e man ; by and

by y ou W i ll be lame .
The selfish man is t oo busy to take a hearty laugh .
A g en e r o u s /he a y
r t laugh will open the doors of a cru s
ty nature and let the sunlight shine in .
To wind up your despondent feeling a good , ,

hea rt v
'
lau g h w i l l d o it good .
Pity him for his poverty of soul that cannot enj oy a
hearty laugh .
Agitation i n all things gives an increase ; qu i etnes s

gives a decrease .
Anything that agrees with nature s laws is right in the ’
s ight of G o d and man .
Every young man w ho wan ts to make a good all round ,

—
man out of himsel f should store up books have a good li ,
br a r y o f the best authors read and think and in this way he

, ,
will make a man o f prominence and usefulness

-
t .
Praying for a min i ster and not paying his salary ; and
p reaching for temperance and voting for whisky is double ,
hypocrisy .
A good man will be steering for Heaven no matter ,
how the surroundings a re .
Bells are the t i m ei s t s o f schools churches and homes

,
.
Take t he bells away and you plu ck out one of the great
ci v i lizers from the j aws of progress
Window blinds subdue the crudeness of the home a n d

gi ve a cheer i ng dress to the surroundings It is a good
.
step i n the morals of refinement .
How frightfully untamed electricity is ; but when ha r

n e s s e d and properly tamed it is one of the kindliest bless
,
i n g s of the human race in adding happ i ness .

B OOK OF P ROV E RBS . 2 15
The w el l regulated saloon is the most dangerous curse

-
ou the face of the earth ; it makes the place good enough to

e ntice the best peopl e to go to the bar and in a short time
they are subj ects fo r the lowest dens .
I f on e of the larger planets would vanish it would ,
change the w orki ngs o f the entire solar system If o n e of .
the larger members o f a fa m ily dies it chan ges the entire ,
working system of the whole fam ily .
If
the an gelic beauty o f the f a n ily dies and the little ,
boy i s placed in the grave and the spirit added to the angels .
it will change the w hole family Heavenward .
Economy and t hrift know no failure .
Courtesy like honesty is t he best policy

, , .
S m all savings encourage perseverence .
The sun may shine in the winter but it don t mak e ,

’ ’
heat enough fo r t he entire house It requires industry t o

r
.
assist nature .
W hen the gr eat storm is over innocently the sun ho w

comes u p over the hill t op t o see i f it is safe t o come o u t
a n d rule the remainder o f the day and like the great gen
, ,
eral retreats until tomorrow

, .
The best way t o cure loneliness is t o d o an act of cha r

i ty that W i ll rea ct on y ou and the two actings will form a
,
p i ll th a t will cure your loneliness every time .
Laughter is my obj ect ; tis a property in man essen

’
t i al to h i s reas on ( Randolph )
.
.
C oii s ci en ce is the pulse to reason .
Reas on is the intellectual telescope ,

and fo r a lon g
range i t i s nece s sary to pla ce the light of Heaven o n it .
Flattery is the food of fools .
Yet do I fear my nature ; it is too full of the m ilk of

kindness Shakespeare )
.
Feet warm and head cool makes

, ,
the doctor poor .
( French ) .
Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments .
Shallow with censure everything beyond t heir depth .
Let other people praise you and keep your mouth sh ut
Temperance is the best physic .
The table is a greater robber than the thief .
"
Bread is the sta ff of life .
The saloon is a legalized and Christianize d drunkard

factory .
A poor excuse is better than none .
A friend is not missed until gone .
Every one can master a grief b u t he that has it .
Shakespeare ) .
The best way to have a friend is to be a fr i end yourself .
Birds of a feather flock together

'
You can j udge a man by the company he keeps .
Familiar friends and old paths are best .
He that sits with his back to a draft sits with his fac t ,
to a coffin .
The grandest accomplishment of a young lady is to be ,
able to bake was h and keep a h ous e in good trim ; It i s

, ,
better than all the classics ; a good common schooling .
e x cepted .
There is nothing that exemplifies the nearness of Go d s

presence better than electricity It is the hand of G o d . .
It penetrates our whole house Every breath we take we .

,
take a bi te of this vital fluid When w e were born into ex

.
i s t e n c e it was in the room ; and when w e die it will stand a s

‘
ou r s p on s e r .
Animals are satisfied on this earth ; man is not sat i sfied ,
which proves that there is something higher in store for

man .
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ;

"
n e ve r q t
u i
a c ertainty for h 0 pe .
T he p y r a m i d s
decl a re that sculpturing was be t t e r fi v e
thousand years ago than i t is today
'
The moon is forty nine times smaller than the ear th

-
.
A day on M ercury is twenty four h ours and five minute s -

.
O n V enus 2 3 hours and 2 1 1 2 minutes O n M a rs 2 4 hours

—
.
'
3 9 minutes and 2 3 seconds Earth 2 4 hours .

, .
They have a stone in Finland that i s used for a bar

om e t e r It turns from almost white t o bl a c k Many youn g
. p
men are similar ; they ar e white but because of black a cts , , ,
they have transformed almost to black .
Christianity makes the high life higher ; it makes the

low lif e hi g her ; it transforms the face of the earth and .
makes it higher .
There is more danger in overloading t he religious o r

gans of the brain than the digestive organs of the stomach .
In every phase religious dyspepsia is more dangerous than

physical dyspepsia .
BO OK OF P ROVE RBS . 19
Petticoated philosophers and blustering heroines make

t he m eanest kind of wives ; they make their husbands and
children very unhappy .
Books and women the p lainer they are the better they
—
comman d the s ensible people .
A young man don t know what is in him until he over

’
hauls his luggage and brings forth the good things that
were hidden in his trunk .
I f y ou start an argument with a bad temper it is n ot ,
likely you will be success ful The very first step hardens
.
his will Sweet oily talk is the best medium to convince

.
,
opponents even sometimes against their own will

,
.
Anger is very detrimental to the success o f the marks

'
man inasmuch as it makes him too shaky ; even s o in a bad

,
m a n his last dream made him t o o shaky to keep the s ecret

—
o f his last murder .
W ater like money in the house when too much f o r the

, ,
comfort of the day destroys the safety o f the home We

, .
need only enough to meet the happy medium in water and

money .
All nature has to run through a process o f fermenta

tion This process is gained by the passions ; some need it
.
in one direction and others in another direction All pas .
sions need a fermentation .
Kind words are the j ewels o f life ; sharp words leave

scars that are taken to the grave .
Select words that are not impregnated with germs ; it

i s the bad twan g that makes the meanness to everything .
In our schools all is imitation excepting that which

treats on ori g i nal compos i t i on o r new discoveries o r i n v en
t i ons ; th i s IS real learning .
Nothing pays better than solid preparations befor e

commen cin g a nythin g .
By active and constant toil the spider makes the bean ,
tiful web ; by active and constant toil the mighty bridge IS ,
built .
'
Pat a horse and t reat him kindly he wil l pull and ,
work much better ; treat a man kindly he will do much ,
more work .
and r e hashing other s thoughts crush es out

Reading -
’
our own thoughts and leaves us in a worse condition than

before we commenced reading .
Size is no true index to manliness ; neither is the num

ber of years y ou have lived a sign of manliness nor is the
number of ve a r s spent in college .
Solid church work will assist you i m m ensely in t he

promotion of your business no matter what kind of h onest
,
‘ ,
business y ou are engaged in .
'
’
You can t learn to be a blacks m ith by reading ; neither
can you learn to be a Christian by reading ; you need prae
tice
.
Who has love in his heart has spurs in his heels .
Fear in love has no luck .

( German ) .
Love at first si g ht keeps the divorce courts busy .
Love only on one side means misery on the other side .
Patriotism pure brave open eyed and independent

, , ,
-
should be part of our religion .
Think yourself not too big for lowly services or too ,
l i ttle to attempt great things for God

Sleep and death are so cl o s el v associated that they ca n
be classified as twin sisters .
It is n ot the largest book that contains the most amoun

o f information The New Testament contains the para
.
mount essence o f all information .
A ki n d act is like a blossom that will bring fruit man y

,
days hence .
The sun dial points time in all directions ; the s ame in ,
a good man ; he points to goo d deeds done in all directions .
A useful life writes character so imperceptibly on t h

Christian face that the ages o f eternity will acknowledge .
Good deed s grow in all kinds of soil .
Through the di ff erent ages of the Chinese empire civ ,
i l i z a t i o n would advance then retrograde ; the same p hil os o

,
phy hold s good in families .
Anoint all your a ctions with an abun d ance of sweet
Like plant s when people live t o o close together or too

,
gm m
ar apart they will not thrive well There is a happy me
, .
The Gospel is l ike an artesian well the deeper you go —
the more force the well has ; the deeper you go i nto the G os
e l
p the more fo rce it has .
The health of a community to a great extent is an , ,

in
dex to the morals .
There can be no great smoke arise but there must be

s om e fi re ( L illy
.
) .
He that would thrive must arise at five .

( Franklin ) .
B OOK OF P ROVE RBS . 223
A man should be very careful not t o tell any shady

s to ries on himself ; they may return like an Australian
”
boomerang and gi ve him a bad whack on the back .
God s greatness an d grandeur would be blotted o u t if

’
w e could understand the incomprehensibility o f God s w orks

’
.
“
The words and unspeakabl e would n ot o c
c ur i n the Bible .
Music is like the m orning star ; we are never tired o f

s eeing its beautiful bri ghtness We never tire of hearing
.
the song of the nightingale The good old hymns the

.
,
—
older they get the better and the more we like them and the ,
greater their e ff ect .
Whatever faults you may have add not to them that of ,
g umbling
r .
A proud man is hard to please : his expectations run

too high and he may be a notorious growler and scolder
, .
Circu m st an c es d on t make the greatness of your char

’
acter ; you are sure of the crown if your m arks deserve it .
regardless of surroundings .
Fame sits aloft waiting who com es next to take the

cha i r o f t e r r e s t i a l greatness Time tells the story
. .
’
You can t control the notes of a nightingale ; neither
can you control the thoughts of your own mind much less
'
,
the thoughts o f your neighbor Make the surroundings .
right and your thoughts will be right .
Precisely the same flowers that grew five t housand

years ago i n the Nile valley are blooming today .
The cl o ud s average hal f a mile in thickness and one

m i le i n alt i tude.
Man has all the animal instincts and also the human .
224 B OOK OF P ROVE RB S .
Deep Christianity always makes a broad Christianity .
The wh ole living kingdom and v e getation quietl y

change to a ccommodat e the element s o f t he atmosphere .
Glycerine is soft but in result it is m ighty ; the s am e

‘
fact sh ould be in your language bu t i n argument mighty ,

.
Absen c e de stroys triflin g intimaci es but invigorate s

s tron g ones .
S p eaking too much is a sign of vanity ; for he that is

lavish in words is niggardly in deeds .
not m oney that makes a man rich ; but con entmen t

It is t
with what he ha s .
usking corn before it is ripe is like husking m i ss i on

H -
a ries into the field before t he corn is ri p e .
Little and often filled the purs e, .

( Franklin ) .
A fat kitchen mak esa lean will .

( Franklin ) .
It is ea s ier to do good when you have all good persons

a long .
T he m ost unmanl y thi ng on earth is sinni n g .
A man may d ig his own grave with his teeth by glut .
t onou s eating .
’
Don t kill the fly on the boy s nose with a sledg e ham ’
Not le s s th a n ten per cent of the books printed are .
hurtful to hum a n h a ppiness .
T ho s e t ha t w e pity for their poverty pity us for hav

‘
in
g the s welled head .
226 B OOK or PR O V E RB S .
A man who is n ot on the upward road to be an angel

is on the downward road to be a devil .
A man who is bold and able to speak independently

will not make a good citizen ; he stirs up the people too
much .
How frequent it i s that y o u think all is lost and at the

same time y ou are passing it at the door of suc cess .
A lie must be watched and nursed like a baby ; the

truth is like a strong man who is not afraid of shadows .
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak ; it serves

for fo o d and raiment ( Longfellow )
. .
Ninety per cent of the drink that is sold is to persons

.
of perverted appetites .
To write a good love letter you ought to beg in without

,
knowing what you mean to s a y and finish without knowing

what you h ave said .
It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery ,
but the friction ; it is not the action of the mind that destroys
the body but it is the acidity that produces the emotion
, .
Indep endence o f character should be our great aim .
Work out your own salvation frame a character that will be

,
good enough for the ages o f eternity and let others talk
as they please .
We should strive to be precisely what we should like to

be at our death Some people have a long time to lay this
.
foundation though t he y n ev e r laid a stone
”
.
, _
We came about four thousand years too late ; such

grandeur that flourished at that age i s passed into the long
night of oblivion and w e are left to strike the pick into the
o l d musty ruins and ransack the catacombs and say Amen
‘
.
,
227
d isappointments and the death of loved ones

Poverty ,
brings us to God .
Love of wild ambition is the cause of all wars . Re a

s on , a t such times acts t o o slowly
,
.
To bé t he b est qualified t o go through li fe under all ,
circ u mstances a good canvasser stands at the head

,
.
Ability to find fault is the meanest ability a man can

possess .
God worked millions o f years to prepare all things to

bless man and make him happy .
Runningthings too nice and systematic kills the fun

and simply leaves a little o f the sour rusty friction that ,
kills all the laugh .
Every moderate drinker could quit if he would ; ever y

drunkard would quit if he could ( Arnot ) . .
man who hath no music in himself nor is n ot

T he
m oved in accord with sweet sounds is fit f o r treason .
Shakespeare )
Music is the most magn ificent and delightful present

God has given to man .
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless show .
( Doc Johnston )
. .
The use of a superlative f or everything weakens your

argument ; t oo much is t o o much o f anything .
A sword in the hands of an idiot is dangerous ; but a

pretty woman i s much more dangerous .
As a letter of recommendation beauty stands pre emi ,

-
u ently at the head o f all .

228 B OOK OF PRO VE BBS
The world through all ages devised plans to put

, ,
s in
out of the world but so far has failed as much as our

, p a
rents did in the garden of Eden He w ho makes use of . t he

surroundings is a genius of prudence ( Lava ter ) .
-
.
Judge a man by his qu es t i o n s ,

‘
r a t he r than by his an
s w e rs (
. V oltaire ) .
Wise men never sit and bewail their loss but cheerfully ,
seek to redress their loss .
I f y ou sing w a r songs it invites a war spirit ; if you ,

-
sing religious songs it will invite the spirit of God ; if you

,
sing love songs it invites the loving .
There is no animal so cross that it don t play with ’

it s
young .
Too much familiarity breeds contempt .
"
Suit the word to the action and the actio n to the word .
Shakesp eare )
I
The best fire escape system IS found i n the New Tes
O 0
tament .
In every person there is an angel and a devil ; one must

conquer the other .
When we are acquainted with our weakest po ints we ,
can by constant e ff ort eradicate them

’
, , .
Joyful people sing ; grieving people weep .

Encourage
A man resembling a frosted potato is hen p ecked .
The weakest link of a chain is an index to its strengt h ;

the weakest point in your nature is the index to your moral
strength .
Big word s do not always carry weight in an argument .
The lubricator is the wrong way when you are dealin g

with t ha t oi l y croo k
’
Coal like money if you have enough f or the day y ou

, ,
are all right ; but if you have t oo m uch o f either y ou are

in dange r I t al s o de stroy s your happiness
. .
The reason some men are lead ers is because they a re
wi s er th a n thei r fellow creatures -

.
V egetation is su fficient proof also the bones of ani —

,
m al s and birds that three thousand years ago the B ritish

—
I sles were tropical .
The mind is the atmosphere of the soul .

( Faubert ) .
An orange tree throws o u t sweet perfume in every di

r e ct i on even so i n a good man he throws out perfume of —
sweetness i n every d i rect i on .
Your best thi n gs nearest ; breath light to your eyes

a re , ,
’
and nearest duties ; don t grasp at the stars ; but d o life s d u ’
tie s and your daily bread will roll in .
Hwho puts on airs of importance exhibits a certain

e
obnox i ous repuls i on not pleasant to man or beast

, .
He is ea g er to be a great and noble man must cul

w ho
t i v a t e g reat and noble actions all the days of his life No .
bi l i t y is like a great forest o f oaks th ey grow all the time —
until they die .
Some book s are to be tasted others to be swallowed ,
and some to be chewed and digested .
I n ancient times men learned with a view to their own

improvement Nowadays men learn with a view to the
.
,
approbation of others .
B O O K O F PRO V E RBS .
N ature gave horns to bulls hoofs to horses and wings

,
t o birds beauty to women as shiel ds f o r protect i on and the

,
powers o f usefulness .
To a rr ot he r a chil d i s everything ; but to a child a

par e nt is onl y a l ink in the chain of her existence ( L ord .
Ba con s fi el d ) .
M an w ants bu t little ,
n or that little lon g .
( Young ) .
B et ween the cup and the lip there is many a slip ,

.
Whatever you do do with your might ; things do ne

,
bv
halves are never done right .
I f you fly too high above your surr oundings or if you ,

’
descend too low you can t do much ; you mu s t ke ep in the
happy medium in all the aff airs to do good and be happy .
When w e are able to fulfill du t ie s aright O h what de ,

"
lightful mem ories of pl easure they bring u s at a l l times .
day and night .
A man is not completely born until he is dead . Fr a nk
Children sweeten labor but they make m is fort unes

,
more bitter They increas e the cares of life but they miti
.
,
gate the remembrance of death ( Bacon ) . .
O ld men are twice children .

( Randolph ) .
Children and fools speak truth .

(E n d i m i on
) .
Watch the child in the April o f life lest the frost of

M ay n i p its blossom and make an empty head .
’
Don t try to teach your children too much in a short
t i me i t leaves the i mpress o f a very short race in life It i s .
better to i mpress that life is a long race .

23 2 B OOK OF P ROVE RB S
Continual dropping wears the fli n t y r oc k away ; con
stant e ff ort wears away the violent p a s s mn .
Adj ective s are a mild type of lying .
Fault -
fin d i n g is a s tain on character that has f ew
eq ual s .
W hatever is hateful to you avoid doing to others ,

.
I f a man slips and falls on the pavement and gets u p ,
a n d kicks the peeling away and don t say a crooked word

’
,
he is a Christian .
Shortcomings and sorrows belong to eve rybody ; they

are the breakers to keep us from going too fast or too slow .
To giv e g enuine sympathy is better than gold or silver

, .
To give alms grudgingly will , gi ve no happiness to you

or the reci p ient .
Belonging to the u p per classes don t put ’

vou nearer to
H eaven .
Happ y is the man w ho can lie down and sleep and wake
up i n the morn i n g ready for his daily happiness .
Fault -fi n d i n g
is growlin g; growling is scolding ; scold
i ngs are shafts of the low er r e gi on s .
A life without reverse means a life without streng th .
In anything where reas on ends God takes command , .
When temptations surround us ,

it takes a brave ma n
to retreat .
No thing is so paralyzing in doing right as the , in or d i

nate des i re to get rich .
B OO K OF P ROVE RBS .
Lovesicknes s is not contagious but the character it has

,
is the most violent ; very often it make s f unerals .
M oney gathers money as a snow ball gathers snow -
hence all children should have a bank in which to place their

money .
The sun is the index hand on the great clock of time ,
the same as the index hand on the 24 hour clock -

.
The rich frame of the mirror amounts to l itt l e ; it is the

mirror The same as our body ; it amounts to little but
.
,
the reflectin g soul amounts to much .
Little flies are the scavengers of the house ; the same as

the little troubles both are renovators for good health and
—
happiness .
The color of ink and its application is like the swivel

“
in machinery ; the color in people and application of their

hands is the swivel in life .
In an audience that is made up of frivolities the think

ing mind is a back number It must take a back seat and
.
look on .
Mirth spice and fascination are the great factors that

,
pour oil on the cogs of an unhappy life .
Home is one of the strongest words ; it holds the

same fascination in all living creation Even man is not .
satisfied ; he wants a h ome after he is dead .
S ome people like to read on science and progress som e ,
l i ke to read the love sick stories of a soft and loose brain

0
-
.
Proverbs are like sten ography mu ch th ought is em

braced i n a few words .
The way of t he tra n s g res sor is h a rd .

B OOK O F P ROVE RBS . 23 5
The chi e f e n d
'
of man is to glorify G o d and enj oy him

forever .
'
There are thousands of illiterate people in the United

States who were turned out o f school as incorrigibles while ,
incompetent teachers were the cause of this deplorable di

lemma .
Scatter flow e rs of c heerfulness wherever you go .
God will be with you and your life will be long and happy .
When you employ a doctor take one , w ho is considerate

and cheerful .
I f an ocean steamer is caught i n a fog the best thing

to do is to anchor and stand still when in our troubles we "
are befogged the best thing w e can do is to anchor and stand

still until the light of heaven appears .
I f you want to be happy make others happy and cheer

,
ful happiness r e echos —

.
Kissing antedates the Cross of Christ thousands of

years , and always carried a mark o f reverence happiness ,
and sadness .
A man will never learn what oars can do unless he

rows on rou g h water ; a man will not learn what troubles
will do unless he passes through them .
The great est blessing you can bestow upon a human

being is t o teac h them what they can do to make life a suc
cess and add happiness .
Opportunities are like the day roses ; if n ot plucked

the day they appear they wither ; the same in opportunities
—
they must be plucked the same day they appear .
The sel f willed life is destructive to happiness ; it is

—
al
ways full o f disappointments .
B OO K OF P ROVE RBS .
The law of demand and supply regulates the prices in

everything all over the world This rule with good com
.
, ,
mon sense should be su fficient to settle all labor disputes

,
.
The greatest secret in success in all the avenues of life

is continuous honest hard labor
, , .
’
We should do all the hard work we can ; if we can t be
a light house let us be a tallow candle
-
,
.
The earth i s only the bridge that w e pass over from

the time we are born into existence until w e are carried to
the last resting place The earth is only the place for our
.
feet while on the j ourney of life .
No one liveth to himself we are all independent of each

other G o d is the ruler over all
. .
Throughout the whole universe there is nothing per

f e ct l y quiet all is motion and action O h what a grand
"
—
.
,
p anorama surrounds us all the time

The great characte ri stic of this life is uncertainty
here today and gone tom orrow
‘
All the good virtues are centered in the word love .
God made great men the same as he made great trees

he makes little trees the same as he makes little men In .
the great economy of the C reator all are equally useful if

placed aright
For comfort and happiness it is best not to see and hear

too much ; better shut your eyes and ears on man y occasions .
’
Don t criticise children in company ; you will destroy
their individuality .
’
Don t use ugly threats to your children that you never
expect to fulfill .
23 8 B OOK O F P ROVE RB S .
The credit system ha s been and ,

i s tod a y, the wors t
curse that even entered into commerce .
To grant license is to give freedom to sel l liquor to a .
besotted humanity to encourage human brutality fill j ails , ,
penitentiaries and make victims for the gallows

,
.
The path of the j ust is as the shining light that shineth

brighter more and more until the perfect ( B i ble ) . .
Hereditary traits of character are more powerful than

all the parental and college training ; hence see well to the
blood that you marry also in the s election of business com
,
panions .
Everyone should carry a moderate insurance policy on

his life to insure a decent burial and a tombstone .
All the time engaged at fair wages is much better than

to r ecei ve ve r y large wages for a short time and then lie idle
.
_
,
an d canvass to find another j ob .
I f a man has the d isposition to make a will he should

do it when in good health and no family disputes on hand
w ,
and under conscientious reasoning .
The heart is t he strong est and most perfect mechan

ism located i n the center of the b o dy ; this same f act should
be exemplified in all the relations of life The center of the .
operations should be the strongest and most perfect .
Time the hand of the Almighty i s writing decay and

"
, ,
death O h how sad

.
, The law in nature the great balance ,
wheel demands this continuous panorama to add life and

,
spice to the hand of creation and Providence .
The beggar died a ii d w a s carried to heaven by angels

’
’
into Abraham s bosom ; the rich man also died and was bur
i e d in hell ; he li fted up his eyes and seeth Abraham afar
o ff and L a z a r e t h in his bosom Scripture
( .
) .
M en of great genius are dull in the society of ladies .
Paul w a s saved from prison by being a R oman citizen

“
M any people have been saved when in foreign land s by be

i n g an American citizen .
It is not on e hundred years since baseball had its ori gi n

i n our nation .
Man was sent into the world to explore and conquer ,
and to tread the shining coasts along with Newton Colum ,
bus Edison and Fulton

,
.
The mold of a man s fortune is left in his

’
ow n ha nds .
( Bacon ) .
Every man s life is a plan of God as much as the

’
s un
is of the solar system in the operation of the universe .
T
here is nothing in the world that enriches the hu
man mind any more than writing and reading proverbs .
W hen you have the bear by the tail hold on to it .
A happy woman is sweeter than honey .
A happy woman attracts unhappy people like bee s

a round the flower .
A happy woman finds sunshine on the darkest da v ,

fo r
i f there is not any she makes sunshine .
A man does not know the v a lue of a wi fe until he has

got to get h i s own meal and see to his laundry .
Love is like fever and fi r e— more fierce in the evening

than at noon .
Love comes as quietly as the shades in the evening or

the stars of heaven .
240 B OOK OF P ROVE RBS
‘
The family is t he nucleus of the State and the f ou n d a

t i on of al l that is g ood .
Honor thy father and thy mother .
When the system is full of typhoid fever it will n ot ,
be long until the typhoid germ will be on hand to reduce

all fever food and leave the body clear and emaciated in ,
shape for food rebuilding .
It is easier f o r a camel to go through the needle s eye ’
than fo r a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven .
There are over persons divorced annually in

t he United States .
The boy knows how much blacking it takes to bring

the shine o u t on the boot ; the boy sh ould be taught the kind
o f learn i n g and t he a m o u n t to bring o u t the shine in his
'
life he wants the happy medium

—
.
Just as dueling is murder so is gambling stealing

,
.
wear a viper for a necklace or make your bed on

T o
thorns has the same sense as to make friendship with an

,
angry man .
From yo ur boyhood friendship has done more to make

you what you are than all other mediums combined .
The life on earth is the childhood as compared to the

life on the other side of the grave .
It don t matter how great our estates are

’
, we are only
strangers and pilgrims on earth .
When a cat catches a mouse she wants to show it to ,
the family ; when a boy does a good j ob he brings it into

the house to show it to his mother In the cat the same as .
,
in the boy it is the spirit of ambition that does it

, .
B OOK OF PROVE RE- S . 24 1
There is a great variety of cora l the same as any other

,
part of creation .
Necessity is the mother of invention .
The table should be made attractive by a display of
flowers .
Three removes are as ba d as a fire .

( Franklin ) .
Teeth should be carefully b rushed morning night and ,
afte r mea ls.
Confidence i s the companion of success .
Wealth and contentment don t always go together ’

.
Much money much care

, .
Great wealth does not always make a man more wise

or more healthy
More lu ckt han wit .
A leaf when old and ripe fades and dies ; man is the
,
-
,
same when old and ripe he fades and dies

, .
He is in clover .
He never gets to heaven who desires to get ther

a 1one
.
When fortune knocks open the door

, .
Would you kn ow the value of money go and borrow ,
some .
It is an ill wind that profits nobody .
Where your trea sure is there will your heart be also

, .
When the sheri ff comes to sel l you out of house and

home it brings a fighting family together quicker than the
,
visi t of the priest .
The hands on the dial of time will not move back .
O ld superstitions are doomed .
I f the a ffections were taken away reason would be ,
like a pilot on a sh i p forsaken by the winds in a profound

,
calm .
Hired horses make short miles .
The pulling out o f an arr ow that has ragged edges

hurts the most ; even so in bad words they o ften produce —
lock j aw
-
.
Fellowship is heaven ; lack of fellowship is hell . Fel

l o w s hi p is life and lack o f fellowship is death
,
.
Wit a nd the w o rld were born without a mother .

( Berk
e n he a d ) .
Li fe is as a favored child i t rri u s t be humored c oaxed

—
,
and petted until it falls asleep ; then all the cares are over -
.
( Goldsmith )
When a great wheel runs d o wn a hill don t a tt empt t o ’
stop it ; i f you do it will break your neck But if it goe s .
up the hill let it drag you along .
Language resembles the st rings of an i ns tru m en t .
When touched in harmony m usical con v ersation will flow .
Wo r ds have Wi ngs flying in all directi on s a ft er th ey

, ,
have left ou r lips They are like forked lightning ; they

.
may strike where least expected and d o much damage .
Habit is second natur e .

When you can t sleep j ump out of bed rub all over
’
, , .
make the blue devils fly like hornets return to bed and trust ,
to God .
Black cows give white milk .
Homesickness has no germs ,

but kills more people
than any other disease .
Still waters run deep .
It is right and proper to hold a reasonable insurance

policy on your property .
Every bird is known by its feathers .
A lame duck in the stock market means any on e w ho '
is not able to fill his contracts ; hence he is expelled ; in this

respect w e find a good many lame ducks among our church
members .
Where there is whispering there is lying .
We may dabble with all kinds of temptations but at

last Providence will send trials that will discipline us for
future happiness .
Home is not built in a day .
The general act of kissing han d s is a salutation that

‘
belongs to all ag es an d nations and is a feature in the sca l e

,
of civilization that should command the encouragement of

the highest type o f humanity .
N ever grieve over spilt milk .
The kiss is not only a delightful luxury but it carries ,
in its course one of the highest expressions in the scale of

civilization We can trace it back into the dark misty ages
.
,
of the morning light of humanity .

B OO K O F PRO V E R BS . 24 5
O ut of a white egg often comes a black chicken .
A monkey remains a monkey though d res s ed in

‘
, silk .
proportion the United States has more divorces than

In _
a n y other nation ; hence w e are the most unhappy of all na

‘
tions and in the greatest need of missionaries

,
.
As plump as a partridge .
A slovenly dress betokens a careless mind .
D rink inj ures a man externally internally and eter ,
nally .
Drunkenness is an egg from which nearly all vices are

hatched .
Punctuality is the soul of business .
M uch noise an d little wool .
Believe a boaster as you would a liar .
o G worksd for all equally ; very often w e can t rec og ‘
n i ze H i s all mighty hand in the various operations as t he y

roll along befor e our eyes a l l t he time . .
Speaking is silver ; silen ce is golden .
’
It was the last straw that broke the camel s back .
In the punishment of disobedient children no bruises or

’
ii u r
y to the child s health is permitted under a heavy pen
ag
j
ty .
Better bend than break .
Like dogs that snarl over a bone and play to g ether

when they have none .
24 6 B OOK O F P ROVE RBS .
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness

ever can And common su fferings have far stronger links
.
than common j oys ( D a m a r ti n e)

. .
N o go o d lawyer ever goes to law himsel f .
When a man has not a good reason for not doing a

thin g he has one good reason for letting it alone ( Scott )
,
. .
The man who is watchin g his health and wealth is a

total abstainer .
The same camera that takes the p i cture of the murder

er is applied to take the pi cture of the King Q ueen and ,
President .
When the righteous are in authority the people rej o i ce .
( Pro v xxix
.
No one has a proper common schooling unless he has

committed the commands Lord s prayer Apostles cree d
.
,
’
,
’
.
’
Agur s prayer and the names of the books of t he Bibl e .
Sin blights everything it touches .
When a man or woman can t enj oy flow ers there is ’

,
somethin g wrong in their hu m anity .
Heaven is represented as a place of beauty ; the person

who is the greatest lover of beauty is the nearest heaven .
H is a hustler What is more a nnoying to a man

e .
than a nerv ous hustler though m a n y p ron o un ce him a n ’
i deal bus i ness man ?

,
True worth in life is not a snap shot a ff air ; t he best —
th i ngs in life are missed by hurly burly m ovements -

.
There is no day in the year that drives self out o f ou r
nature more than Christmas ; it is the home day for a il .

He w ho loves money more than honesty comes e v en t u
ally to a sudden halt .
As clear as a bell .
In proportions as the suicides of a n ation increase— wh ich

is about fourteen per cent in the United States i n the same
.
—
proportion unhappiness and divorces increase .
As green as grass .
T he most important poi nt in life is promptness in eve r v
thin g
”
As black a s coal .
The Chinaman said : Many many Christians but , ,

n ot
many Jesus C hrist Christians .
Soon hot soon cold

, .
The shoemaker sees the faults in shoes and the printe r

finds the faults in spelling .
I f wishes were horses beggars would ride , .
W hen people speak ill o f thee live so that nobody will

,
believe them
He has an elephant on his hands .
Man carries his superi o rity inside ; animals carry

the i rs on the outs i de .
The beasts are by i nstinct their own doctors .
W ho would wish to be valued must make himself

scarce .
It is bad soil when no flowers grow .

- B OOK O F P RO VE RBS . 24 9
Wise behavior and i g norant courage are caught as

men take diseases one of another ; therefore let m en watch
,
their compan y ( Shakespeare )

. .
He who solicits timidity courts a refusal .
God gives sleep to the ba d in order that the good may

be undist urbed ( Saadi ) . .
Lo o
k out for great danger when the pirate prays .
A vessel large may venture more : small ones must

keep near shore .
He that stays in the valley will never get over the hill .
It is j u st as hard to quit a good h a bit as it is to qui t

a bad habit .
’
To life s end is a great j ourney should you live to be ,
eighty years .
The fire burns brightest on your own hearth .
East or west home is best , .
A mother is a mother— a mother all the days of her

l i fe ; a father i s a father a father u ntil he gets his second
—
wi fe
.
’
A mother s love changes never .
A babe is an angel whose wings decrease as the legs

,
get longer .
Too many cooks spoil the soup .
When people have bought on credit unt il it is gone ,
then they shy you at every corner When you ask them to .
pay YO U they abuse you in the very worst manner

, .
0 B OOK O F PBO VE RBS .
Clocks will wear out ; God s clock of time will n ot wear ’
out nor does it need any winding up ; it is the clock of eter

,
n ity .
Some Christians start on the ground floor some on the ,
middle floor some on the garret The lower they start the
,
.
better the foundation is and the greater the weight they

carry .
The family that talks all the time about good things to
eat have more stomach than brain and th o se that talk ,
learning have more brain than stomach .
”
The quickest way to kill a family is to put poison in the
'
co ff ee ; the next best w a y is to have a saloon next door ,
well regulated in the sale o f intoxicating liqu o rs so as to

“
make it a respectable place for a higher class and espe ,
c i a l l y on Sunday .
The devil don t want any b etter territory to make prod

’
igal sons and daughters than over nice homes From these .
families he can make high toned devils

,
-
.
In doing go o d it is much more essential to send mis

,
s i on a r i e s among the higher classes than am o ng the heathen ;

’
they don t do any mischief while the higher class do much
,
in favor of infidelity .
’
Mirth don t build hous es and don t su vey l a n ds but it ’
r
,
i s the cement that fills the ragged edges and adds s m oo t h

ness to all the surroundings .
I f you will resist the devil at all corners he will in a ‘
short time quit coming .
Sluggards are never great scholars .
Every hill has its valleys ; ev ery obstacle has its valley .
The hills at a d i s t a n ce l oo k l a r g e r than they are ; mora ’
courage will surmount them all

)
‘
.
252 B OO K O F P RO VE RB S .
Money makes the mare go .
In all the wars that ar e recorded fourteen bi l l i on s o f

'
the human family fell by the cruel hand of war ; fifteen

times more than all the people on earth at present .
Paddle your own canoe .
Would you be strong conquer yoursel f ,

.
I f you can not inspire a wom an with love for you fill ,
her above the brim with love for herself ; all that slops over
will be yours .
A little oil may save a deal of friction .
Never venture in deep water until you are able to swim .
A day of sorrows is longer than a month of j oy .
Never t rouble trouble till trouble troubles you .
The d a r kest hour is the one before the dawn .
A smooth sea never made a good sailor .
There is not a ma n ou
l
t has a secret respect for good

’
.
Six of one and a

'
ha l f d o z en
-
of another
“
To be a temperance crank me a ns to say that you are

“
an ii i d ep en d e n t man and associated with the best minds on

c artl l
To play the dog in the man ger .
'
To commence an argument or a lecture wi th a good

s tory or a proverb i s the very best medium to make an i m
pressi on on your a uditors and als o to gain the day i n a d i s

,
cu s s i on .
B OOK OF P ROVER BS . 53
Never sound the tru m pet in behalf of your own praise .
Be sure y o u are right then go ahead

,
.
The index on the di al plate of time plainly shows that

w e are passing through the greatest boom of progress th a t
the world ever saw ; all pointing to a closer insight to the
natural laws which shows the hand of God
, .
M oney is the root of all evil .
Youth sucks ated pills ;

t he age chews the
'
s u g a r - co Old
bitter pills of untold hardship s in life .
Equivocation is a first cousin to a lie .
Friendship formed in youth will live as long as li fe

lasts and friendship formed when old will soon be over
, .
Every man has his weak side .
Give hi m rop e enough

"
: a nd he will han g himself .
Hedges have ears and walls have ears , .
Adversity proves the strength of friendship the sam e

~
as gold is tried by fi r e
'
To tell tales out of school .
O h , Lord "We have gone astray -

like lost sheep .
( Bible ) .
Every tub must stand on its own bottom .
A cloud i s an unpleasant sight but when God opens ,
H i s great sunlight a silver lining appears even so in man

0
, ;
he 18 as a dark cloud but so soon as God s light fr om above
,
’
n o ve s on and in him the silver lining appears in all its

,
g i ory .
25 4 B O OK OF PROVE RBS .
Unripe fruits are hard to digest ; sha d y stories tol d by

a bungling Dutchman are hard to digest .
There is h onor among thi eves .
The man who is the best qualified to govern hims el f is ~

.
the most lordly gentleman .
Much surface happiness can be gained by wild thinking

on imaginary wealth and ho w t o apply it in d oing the most
"
good The delusion is very soothing and if troubled by

.
,
wakefulness at night may assist y ou to induce sleep .
The best way for a man to show his ignorance is to

show his learning religion or clothing
,
.
The tiger appears so innocent when sleeping ; behold

him when aroused Even so in many men ; how innocent
.
they appea r ; behold them when aroused .
The grandest feature is to keep all the organs of the ‘
body well fed ; unless you see to this you must feel assured
that y ou will have s om e ip oo r and sickly parts of your body
and much trouble throu gh life .
The l ove of God a nd the laugh of a little child are

synonyms .
Love and s weetness m i x e d w i t h gravity are the blend

, ,
i ng o f t w o natures that produce great dignity of expressio n .
In bringing up a child think

\ , of its old age .
’
Li fe s action t o a great extent is like a spoiled child
, ,
it must be coaxed an d watched until at last death comes t o

unlock the fetters and let the prisoner g o and enj oy the
freedom o f the kin g d om o f the blessed .
Children have more need o f models than critics .

( Fo u
bert )
256 B OOK OF PROVE RBS .
Riches
are facts that are wiped away in a very short
time but thoughts are facts that the ages of eternity will
,
not wipe out .
Knowledge without practice makes but half an ar ,

~
V enus is one seventh smaller than the earth

-
.
The diameter of the sun is miles .
Laziness is t oo slow ; poverty soon overtakes it .
The temptation avoided is a temptation passed .
As the m other so the daughter, .
Pain like a watchman is standing sentinel to all parts

, ,
of our body telling us the kind and location of our ailments ;

,
hence we can regard pain as the greatest blessing we en

j oy touching health and long life .
As clear as crystal .
Never praise the fording place until you have crossed

the river .
He w ho would gather roses must not fear thorns .
He who lacks courage in m any instances needs good

,
None but the brave deserve the fair .
Custom makes thi ngs easy .
There are words that are of great value t o the culti

vati on and C i vilization o f the world if properly placed ; if ,
not they may contain germs that will sprout and change t he
world wrong .
” ”
R eason s whole pleasure lies in three words Health

’
,
“
peace and competence .
Crying is one of the natural instinct s o f the mi nd to

give an index to the inner feeling o f all living creation .
T here a re as many expressions in crying as there are

in laughing
“
A key without a lock is like a mouth without a mind

both are useless
There i s always room at the t op for the man w ho has

force of character .
Good friends are like good books they are equally ele
—
va t i n g .
B e not over sever e; be not over gen tle - -

. Ther e is a
happy medium .
When y o u take a snap shot picture move on and get — .
out of the w a y qui ckl y f ‘
Alexander the Great died at Babylon at the a ge of 33

years .
Stars trees ani mals birds and in fact all Nature is

, , , , , ,
a var i ety ; even so in the Book of Pro v erbs .
A telescope has two ends ; if y ou want to see the stars

y o u must look in at the small end L ife has two ends and .
,
i f you want to s ee the Kingdom o f God y ou must look in ,
at the small end .
I f y ou want to get to heaven and make home ,

like
heaven then y ou are in touch with heaven all the tim e
, .
A small babyish face is an index, to a s m all babyish

,
m i nd .
258 B OOK OF PROV E RB S .
A sharp nose sharp teeth sharp features and sharp

'
, ,
mental organs are an index to an erratic nervous excitable , , ,
and snappish disposition .
Fi fty years ago a turn co at was pronounced a m a n -
without a character ; now they are denom i nated as i nd i v i d

u a l s who know something a nd have good common se n se .
I planted two bulbs of nearly the same appearance ;

one grew a beautiful lily and the oth er an onion I s aw two .
boys o f nearly the same appearance ; on e grew up to be a n o

ble ma n the other grew up to be a noted devil whisky did
,
—
it
.
A leg out of j oint is like religi on without the spirit of

God in i t both are w orthless ; keep the spirit of God in r e
—
l i g i on and the leg in j oint and be happy

.
.
The waters of twenty eight States are poured into the -
mouth of the Mississippi ; hence it ch okes and overflows ;

the same in the rich man s purse It choks and overflows ’
. .
In both cases there is danger of reaction .
Honest men kn ow and confess their faults ; rogues

know and conceal the i r faults .
All the di ff erent phases of character are written in the

human face the mirthful the scornful the kind the cruel
—
, ,
-
, ,
the stingy the liberal the brutal the literary the cultivated
, , , , ,
the religious the idiotic the fighting the licentious Wash

, ,
i n g t on had all the phases about equally developed .
O h "
what
a privilege it is in our daily walks o f life
to be permitted to do a kindness to some on e that will shine
bri ghter and brighter even until the perfect day
o
‘
To tel l lies is a poor w a y to put down V i ce ; rather let

on as though you had n o t seen it
; time will kill it faster than
it can be done in any other way It killed the dog then it .
,
killed the cat and in time it will kill the toper

, .
B OOK OF P ROVE RB S .
B e not ov er fin e in anything ; hair splitting is a fearfu l

- -
c urse on the way to happiness .
Incline to the happy medium in all things .
There is a time to weep a time to lau gh , , a time to

mourn and a ti me to dance .
I f you want to build a strong wall you must use mortar

.
to fill in the vacant places ; if y ou want a strong stomach ,
you must use light food to fill the open spaces .
Having a meek and obliging nature is the highest ex

pression of a noble gentleman .
Thou shalt rej oice in every good thing .

( Scripture ) .
I f a chicken had three wings it could not fly ; if you

had three million dollars it is not likely that your soul would
fly to God .
Wit is l i ke a brillian t torch— only good to bright en a

g loomy day .
The guilty soul cannot keep its own secret .
There is no refuge from confe ssion ,

except suicide .
( W ebster )
Twilight comes broad like the hands of God The
, .
laws of nature are broad B e a broad gauger in all your

.
-
actions .
Some people put such a sharp point to all the a ff airs of

life that the sharp point sometimes breaks o ff an d they
have a stub to work with Do n t make your points t oo
.
’
s harp.
W hen you talk to people

’
look them straight

s t a n d e r ect ,
i n the face and tell them the straight truth .

D on t forget to speak to every person y ou meet ; i t

’
makes you feel go od and twill have the same e ff ect on

,
’
the persons addressed ;
Young trees mixed w ith old trees adds to their length

o f life ; even so i n the human family young people mixed —
with old adds length of life .
Stuttering is very contagious not by germs but by

.
, ,
im
i t a t i on the same rule may be applied to p rofanity .
Daniel Webster reduced the number of syllables in his

words to add to the power i n his speeches ; even so in a meal
that has power i t has not many cours es
—
.
The M ormon religion teach es one good fact and that ,
is that every man shoul d get married and have a family if ,
physically and mentally qualified .
Girls are like queens ware when it is broken it can t be ’

'
restored ; and when their character is broken it cannot be

?
restor ed
1
By harshness parents make liars out o f their children

they must tell a lie or be severely punished .
’
Don t tell people that they are getting fat or lean or , ,
pale ; it is not reciprocally appreciated .
"ou m ust
tell a wo m an that you love her all the ti m e ;
i t has a very good e ffect .
He barked up the wrong tree .

( O l d Maxim ) .
’
Don t talk over your troubles to your neighbors .
The most intelligent m e n think far into the future

the i gnorant are satisfied without thinking
.
Good eyes and strong drink are at en m ity .

A man s memory is like the stop gauge on a wate r

’
p ipe ; when enough mind has run out God stops the mem ~
ory gauge .
The climate best adapted for wheat is the best adapted

to develop the highest type o f humanity .
F i ve e i ghts of the diamonds in the world belong to

‘
America .
I would rather be called the laughing stock of the

town than the crying stock .
To attempt to mend God s works or to find fault with

’
,
them is the inde x to a growling fault fin d e r ; a dyspeptic

,
-
,
H e should read Lord C hesterfield .
It takes five drinks to make a drunk ; one drink is one

fi fth of a drunk Five topics in a paper govern the coun
.
try ; one article governs one fi ft h of a country -
Many words are sweet at first but in a short time they

’
,
f erment and the sourness ai s unbeara ble .
I f men were better instructed there would be less im

p osin g on o thers ( L ocke ) . .
In all the steps of life w e must take less ons from na

ture ; the thickest part of a tree is at the but In building a .
house we should build large pillars to support the h ous e ;

the largest part of a church tower should be at the base .
A g ood wife is like the ivy that bea ut i fi es the house to

wh i ch i t clin g s twining its tendrils clos er and more loving
,
l y as the ages roll on .
Whatever w e contemplate in time grows to a ccomm o

date the i deal ; hence w e shou l d make all exertions to start
our mode of thinking on goo d subj ects .
B OOK OF PROVE RBS
A lover at a great distance prepares the m ind better t o
appreciate the long ages in the Kingdom of G od than any
earthly medium .
David loved Jonathan a n d J on a t ha n loved David ; this

exemplifies mutual love or reciprocal attachment .
Christopher Columbus believed the story of the waves

and sky telling that land w a s nea r The wrinkled fac e a nd .
t n e gray hair tells that the Eternal shore is near
The soil of their souls is shallow ; hence you dare n ot
plow deep ; they can t digest st r ong food

’
.
Every tree produces fruit according to its nature ; ev
ery m a n a ct s according to his nature

'
.
.
Well begun is half done says an old proverb

, , .
Death com e s t o all even to monumental structures and

, ,
oblivion rests on the most illustrious name ( A n s on i u s ) . .
T he\ha pp i e s t
most violent people
a nd on the face of
the earth are found i n"
I reland .
The boy that wriggled his head and shoulders in at

the stove door thought it goo d fun but to get out w a s a
'
'
di ff erent tune There are m a n y p eop l e who push them

.
selves into places and think it g ood f un but to g et out is a .

,
“
di ff erent tune .
All o u r guilty stains may be eras ed and t he likeness
”
-
of
G od may be stamped on everyon e .
No word in old age is so gr eat glor i ous o r good or

It embraces all
, ,
“
sounds so sweetly as the word peace
, .
the virtues .
Peace of body mind and spirit is t he greatest embl em

,
that mortal man can wish .

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