John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Publius Syrus. (42 B.C.) (continued) |
| 8658 |
| He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so. |
| Maxim 598. |
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| A guilty conscience never feels secure. 1 |
| Maxim 617. |
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| Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. 2 |
| Maxim 633. |
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| Familiarity breeds contempt. 3 |
| Maxim 640. |
| 8662 |
| Money alone sets all the world in motion. |
| Maxim 656. |
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| He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage. |
| Maxim 673. |
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| You should go to a pear-tree for pears, not to an elm. 4 |
| Maxim 674. |
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| It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. |
| Maxim 675. |
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| We should provide in peace what we need in war. 5 |
| Maxim 709. |
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| Look for a tough wedge for a tough log. |
| Maxim 723. |
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| How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business! |
| Maxim 725. |
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| They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands. 6 |
| Maxim 759. |
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| He gets through too late who goes too fast. |
| Maxim 767. |
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| In every enterprise consider where you would come out. 7 |
| Maxim 777. |
| Note 1. See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 109. [back] |
| Note 2. Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Meditations, ii. 5. [back] |
| Note 3. See Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Quotation 7. [back] |
| Note 4. You may as well expect pears from an elm.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. book ii. chap. xl. [back] |
| Note 5. See Washington, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 6. The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.—Plutarch: Of the Tranquillity of the Mind. [back] |
| Note 7. In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.—Epictetus: That everything is to be undertaken with circumspection, chap. xv. [back] |