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It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.
In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.
ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.
He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.
An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.
The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.
Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.
One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.
The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.
There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.
A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.
My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.
There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.