"Oh, gentle Shepherd, climbing rugged mountains,
And crossing waters deep,
How long wouldst Thou be willing to go homeless,
To find a wandering sheep?"
"I count not time," the Shepherd gently answered,
"As thou dost count and bind
The days in the weeks, the weeks in months;
My count is just until I find.
And that should be the limit of my journey,
I'd cross the waters deep,
And climb the hill-slopes with untiring patience,
Until I found my sheep."
--_Luke xv, 4v._
1759
Sickness is every man's master.
--_From the Danish._
1760
No duns outside, and no doctors within.
(Absence of sickness and debt.)
--_Chinese._
1761
Out of sight, out of mind.
1762
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises
from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
--_Zimmerman._
1763
Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself.
--_Rochefoucauld._
1764
Silence is the consummate eloquence of sorrow.
1765
Of keeping silence few have paid the cost;
Of having said too much, a countless host.
1766
Silence is often an answer.
1767
The silence often of pure innocence,
Persuades, when speaking fails.
--_Shakespeare._
1768
There is a sure reward for faithful silence.
--_Horace._
1769
He knows much who knows how, and when, to be silent.
--_Scotch._
1770
Plated silver.
(Sarcastically applied to pretenders.)
1771
Most rare is now our old simplicity.
1772
Commit a sin twice, it will seem a sin no longer.
--_From The Talmud._
1773
Men's sins are before our eyes: our own, behind our backs.
--_Seneca._
1774
Many a man will give another man a letter of recommendation, though he
would hardly lend the applicant a dollar.
1775