• Various

  A person dishonored is worst than dead.

  4.1 · 50 votes · 144 reads

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• Countries

  A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

  4.1 · 15 votes · 138 reads

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• Various

  Absence - that common cure of love.

  4.5 · 46 votes · 10 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

  3.1 · 49 votes · 111 reads

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• Time

  By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

  4.9 · 48 votes · 140 reads

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• Defects

  Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

  4.1 · 10 votes · 128 reads

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• Society

  Every man is the son of his own works.

  4.1 · 18 votes · 87 reads

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• Nature

  Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

  3.7 · 36 votes · 67 reads

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• Defects

  Faint heart never won fair lady.

  4.9 · 60 votes · 119 reads

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• Virtues

  Fair and softly goes far.

  3.7 · 51 votes · 139 reads

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• Feelings

  Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

  4.3 · 63 votes · 142 reads

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  For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

  4.0 · 13 votes · 20 reads

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• Defects

  God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

  4.0 · 10 votes · 120 reads

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• Nature

  Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

  4.8 · 58 votes · 73 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

  4.7 · 39 votes · 89 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

  4.6 · 18 votes · 162 reads

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• Virtues

  He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

  3.9 · 51 votes · 94 reads

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• Various

  Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.

  3.9 · 57 votes · 198 reads

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• Countries

  I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

  3.5 · 9 votes · 97 reads

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  I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

  4.1 · 36 votes · 191 reads

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• Virtues

  I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

  3.3 · 51 votes · 49 reads

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• Society

  If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may rai

  3.5 · 7 votes · 37 reads

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• Feelings

  It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

  4.0 · 29 votes · 20 reads

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• Defects

  Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

  4.3 · 56 votes · 36 reads

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• Society

  Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, ca

  4.7 · 18 votes · 128 reads

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  Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

  3.9 · 64 votes · 122 reads

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• Society

  Man appoints, and God disappoints.

  4.0 · 9 votes · 99 reads

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• Various

  Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

  5.0 · 63 votes · 146 reads

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• Society

  No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

  3.0 · 48 votes · 161 reads

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• Various

  No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

  4.0 · 15 votes · 20 reads

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• Virtues

  One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

  4.5 · 28 votes · 87 reads

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• Various

  Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

  4.9 · 25 votes · 140 reads

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• Virtues

  Patience and shuffle the cards.

  3.4 · 16 votes · 136 reads

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• Countries

  Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

  4.4 · 62 votes · 18 reads

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• Nature

  She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

  5.0 · 19 votes · 128 reads

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• Society

  The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

  4.7 · 14 votes · 77 reads

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• Society

  The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

  5.0 · 31 votes · 152 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

  3.1 · 49 votes · 4 reads

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• Feelings

  The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  4.7 · 17 votes · 142 reads

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• Time

  There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

  3.3 · 51 votes · 46 reads

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