| Emma K. Gordon - 1902 - 136 páginas
...then another, And the highest wall is made. One flake and then another, And the deepest snow is laid. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds; For when the weeds begin to grow, Then doth the garden overflow." shining dancing fairy break Children,... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton - 1903 - 138 páginas
...looked round, and found that the Ape had used the time to crack the nuts and eat them. A MAN OF WORDS. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. London bridge is broken down, Dance over my Lady Lee; London bridge is broken down, With a gay lady.... | |
| Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 562 páginas
...* From Indian Wisdom by Hunicr Williams, It is better to Jo well than to say well. —MORAL MAXIM. A man of words, and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. The only things in which we can be said to have any property, are our actions. Our thoughts may be... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1904 - 500 páginas
...plants; you may remember an ancient poet, whose works we have all studied and copied at school long ago: A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. It is a pity that good works, among some sorts of people, are so little valued, and good words admired... | |
| Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 762 páginas
...have known him do many a good turn to a chap In misfortune. THACK., Newc., I, Ch. XXV, 284. a man. A man of words and not of deeds | Is like a garden full of weeds. Proverb. Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes. DICK., Chrlstm. Car.=, I, 20. Alexander... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 512 páginas
...you may remember an ancient poet, whose works we have all studied and copied at school long ago. " A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds." I mean seemingly pious discourses, instead of humane benevolent actions. Those they almost put out... | |
| Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1906 - 418 páginas
...gone Learning is there to make their living on. An earlier Henry Holcroft, in 1742, recorded in it that A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. A still earlier possessor used Shelton's zeiglographic or shorthand, and lets us know that on August... | |
| Carolyn Wells - 1906 - 318 páginas
...find the fellow Who knows he thinks — And you know the fellow who knows. Anonymous. A MAN OF WORDS A MAN of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds; And when the weeds begin to grow, It's like a garden full of snow; And when the snow begins to fall,... | |
| Kate Van Wagenen - 1909 - 122 páginas
...El'len sev'en ty soap brush comb store water keep tree PROVERBS AND MAXIMS A stitch in time saves nine. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. A kindly act is a kernel sown That will grow to a goodly tree. A bird in the hand is worth two in the... | |
| 1909 - 234 páginas
...pens. Copies were also ""set "-by the teachers. Some of the quaint precepts used by Philip Bowman were: "A Man of Words and not of Deeds, is like a Garden full of Weeds." "Command, you may, Your mind for Play, throughout the Day" and "Lost Time is never found again." A... | |
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