Sometimes dusty old books have the best lessons, don’t they? Our principal came across this 1938 how-to book and we loved these old English proverbs.
- Fire is a good servant, but a bad master.
- A letter box saves many knocks.
- Let hope be our handmaid, and faith be our guide.
- A liar should have a good memory.
- Begin well and end better.
- We learn something even by our failures.
- Night is not dark to the good, nor is day bright to the wicked.
- Bustle is not industry, nor is impudence courage.
- Do not jest in serious matters.
- The hypocrite will fast to seem more mholy.
- Willows are weak, yet they bind other woods.
- A clear conscience fears no accusation.
- Better pay the cook than the doctor.
- None are as good as they should be.
- Never open the door to a little vice, lest a great one should enter also.
- Shallow brooks are noisy, deep rivers flow with silent majesty.
- Contented mind is continual fest.
- If none endeavor there would be no end to discovery.
- Plain words make the most ornamental sentences.
- Time which is most valuable is most trifled with.
- To cool a passion, take a long walk.
- To know the value of money, work for it.
- There is no balm for every wound.
- Falsehood, like a nettle, stings those who meddle with it.
- There is something to be learned from the merest trifle.
- Read not books along, but men, and above all read, thyself.
- Truth is the hidden gem, we all should dig for.
- If you desire to know, do not fear to ask
- Avoid in yourself what you think wrong in your neighbour.
- Morning is welcome to the industrious.
- Never spend your money before you have it.
- Wise people are the most modest.
- Revenge is the only debt that is wrong to pay.
- When alone, we have our thoughts to watch.
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