In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

James Howell

Categorized in : Twenties Adversity Prosperity

Respect a man, he will do the more.

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We learn by teaching.

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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

debtors business memories

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

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Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

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After rain comes fair weather.

fairs rain weather

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

pioneers parent evil

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

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He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

true-friend friendship enemy

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

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Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world.

calves bees world

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

real-friends real enemy

Love is the life of friendship.

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Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

paint house home

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

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God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

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The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

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He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

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