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| The proverb answers where the sermon fails |
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Quote by: W. G. Simms |
Date: 14 Sep 2012 |
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| The proverb answers where the sermon fails |
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Quote by: W. G. Simms |
Date: 14 Sep 2012 |
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| Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom |
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Quote by: Joseph Joubert |
Date: 13 Sep 2012 |
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| The diamond may adorn royalty, regardless of personal worth; but jewels of thought render even poverty illustrious and sublime. |
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Quote by: Gems for the Fireside |
Date: 12 Sep 2012 |
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| Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago. |
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Quote by: Samuel Smiles |
Date: 11 Sep 2012 |
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| Know the great men of your age |
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Quote by: Baltasar Gracián |
Date: 10 Sep 2012 |
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| It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we have at last reached. |
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Quote by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Date: 9 Sep 2012 |
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| Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors |
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Quote by: Benjamin Franklin |
Date: 8 Sep 2012 |
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| A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. |
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Quote by: Joseph Joubert |
Date: 7 Sep 2012 |
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| A proverb is much matter decocted into few words. |
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Quote by: Thomas Fuller |
Date: 6 Sep 2012 |
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| There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. |
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Quote by: Pierre Boyle |
Date: 5 Sep 2012 |
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