A Handbook of Proverbs: English, Scottish, Irish, American, Shakspearean, and Scriptural; and Family Mottoes, with Names of the Families by Whom They are AdoptedJames Allan Mair G. Routledge and Sons, 1873 - 192 páginas |
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Página 81 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Página 82 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Página 81 - BETTER is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.
Página 85 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Página 82 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Página 84 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Página 84 - For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Página 82 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 82 - He that gathereth in summer is a wise son : but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Página 85 - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?