1753). See Burton, page 186.
[811-2] PROCLUS: _Commentary on Euclid's Elements, book ii. chap.
iv._
[811-3] Attributed to Mademoiselle Bertin, milliner to Marie
Antoinette.
"There is nothing new except that which has become
antiquated,"--motto of the "Revue Rétrospective."
[811-4] This saying is attributed to Talleyrand. In a letter of
the Chevalier de Panat to Mallet du Pan, January, 1796, it occurs
almost literally,--"No one is right; no one could forget anything,
nor learn anything."
[811-5] Words uttered by Comte de Salvandy (1796-1856) at a fete
given by the Duke of Orleans to the King of Naples, 1830.
[811-6] Attributed to Luther, but more probably a saying of J. H.
Voss (1751-1826), according to Redlich, "Die poetischen Beiträge
zum Waudsbecker Bothen," Hamburg, 1871, p. 67.--KING: _Classical
and Foreign Quotations_ (1887).
[811-7] See Gibbon, page 430.
Napoleon said, "Providence is always on the side of the last
reserve."
[811-8] Anonymous translation from "Tait's Magazine," July, 1850.
The poem is of an age earlier than that of Mahomet.
THE BIBLE.
OLD TESTAMENT.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
_Genesis i. 3._
It is not good that the man should be alone.
_Genesis ii. 18._
Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.
_Genesis ii. 23._
They sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons.
_Genesis iii. 7._
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
_Genesis iii. 19._
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
_Genesis iii. 19._
The mother of all living.
_Genesis iii. 20._
Am I my brother's keeper?
_Genesis iv. 9._
My punishment is greater than I can bear.
_Genesis iv. 13._
There were giants in the earth in those days.
_Genesis vi. 4._
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
_Genesis vii. 12._
The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
_Genesis viii. 9._
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
_Genesis ix. 6._
Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me.
_Genesis xiii. 8._
In a good old age.
_Genesis xv. 15._
His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against
him.
_Genesis xvi. 12._
Old and well stricken in age.
_Genesis xviii. 11._
His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of
salt.
_Genesis xix. 26._
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
_Genesis xxvii. 22._
They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours.
_Genesis xxxvii. 23._
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
_Genesis xlii. 38._
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
_Genesis xlix. 4._
I have been a stranger in a strange land.
_Exodus ii. 22._
A land flowing with milk and honey.
_Exodus iii. 8; Jeremiah xxxii. 22._
Darkness which may be felt.
_Exodus x. 21._
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead
them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.
_Exodus xiii. 21._
When we sat by the fleshpots.
_Exodus xvi. 3._
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
_Leviticus xix. 18._
The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam,
What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three
times?
_Numbers xxii. 28._
Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be
like his!
_Numbers xxiii. 10._
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
_Numbers xxiv. 5._
Man doth not live by bread only.
_Deuteronomy viii. 3._
The wife of thy bosom.
_Deuteronomy xiii. 6._
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
_Deuteronomy xix. 21._
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
_Deuteronomy xxviii. 5._
The secret things belong unto the Lord.
_Deuteronomy xxix. 29._
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
_Deuteronomy xxxii. 10._
Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked.
_Deuteronomy xxxii. 15._
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
_Deuteronomy xxxiii. 25._
His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
_Deuteronomy xxxiv. 7._
I am going the way of all the earth.
_Joshua xxiii. 14._
I arose a mother in Israel.
_Judges v. 7._
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
_Judges v. 20._
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
_Judges v. 25._
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed,
he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
_Judges v. 27._
Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the
vintage of Abi-ezer?
_Judges viii. 2._
He smote them hip and thigh.
_Judges xv. 8._
The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.
_Judges xvi. 9._
From Dan even to Beer-sheba.
_Judges xx. 1._
The people arose as one man.
_Judges xx. 8._
Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will
lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
_Ruth i. 16._
Quit yourselves like men.
_1 Samuel iv. 9._
Is Saul also among the prophets?
_1 Samuel x. 11._
A man after his own heart.
_1 Samuel xiii. 14._
David therefore departed thence and escaped to the cave Adullam.
_1 Samuel xxii. 1._
Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askelon.
_2 Samuel i. 20._
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they were not divided.
_2 Samuel i. 23._
How are the mighty fallen!
_2 Samuel i. 25._
Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
_2 Samuel i. 26._
Abner . . . smote him under the fifth rib.
_2 Samuel ii. 23._
Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown.
_2 Samuel x. 5._
Thou art the man.
_2 Samuel xii. 7._
As water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
_2 Samuel xiv. 14._
They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely
ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
_2 Samuel xx. 18._
The sweet psalmist of Israel.
_2 Samuel xxiii. 1._
So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron
heard in the house, while it was in building.[815-1]
_1 Kings vi. 7._
A proverb and a byword.
_1 Kings ix. 7._
I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
_1 Kings xvii. 9._
An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.
_1 Kings xvii. 12._
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil
fail.
_1 Kings xvii. 16._
How long halt ye between two opinions?
_1 Kings xviii. 21._
There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
_1 Kings xviii. 44._
A still, small voice.
_1 Kings xix. 12._
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that
putteth it off.
_1 Kings xx. 11._
Death in the pot.
_2 Kings iv. 40._
Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
_2 Kings viii. 13._
Like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi: for he driveth
furiously.
_2 Kings ix. 20._
One that feared God and eschewed evil.
_Job i. 1._
Satan came also.
_Job i. 6._
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name
of the Lord.
_Job i. 21._
All that a man hath will he give for his life.
_Job ii. 4._
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at
rest.
_Job iii. 17._
Night, when deep sleep falleth on men.
_Job iv. 13; xxxiii. 15._
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
_Job v. 7._
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
_Job v. 13._
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of
corn cometh in in his season.
_Job v. 26._
How forcible are right words!
_Job vi. 25._
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.
_Job vii. 6._
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place
know him any more.[816-1]
_Job vii. 10_; cf. _xvi. 22._
I would not live alway.
_Job vii. 16._
The land of darkness and the shadow of death.
_Job x. 21._
Clearer than the noonday.
_Job xi. 17._
Wisdom shall die with you.
_Job xii. 2._
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
_Job xii. 8._
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
_Job xvi. 1._
Miserable comforters are ye all.
_Job xvi. 2._
The king of terrors.
_Job xviii. 14._
I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
_Job xix. 20._
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a
book!
_Job xix. 23._
Seeing the root of the matter is found in me.
_Job xix. 28._
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue.
_Job xx. 12._
The land of the living.
_Job xxviii. 13._
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
_Job xxviii. 18._
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw
me, it gave witness to me.
_Job xxix. 11._
I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
_Job xxix. 13._
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
_Job xxix. 15._
The house appointed for all living.
_Job xxx. 23._
My desire is . . . that mine adversary had written a book.
_Job xxxi. 35._
Great men are not always wise.
_Job xxxii. 9._
He multiplieth words without knowledge.
_Job xxxv. 16._
Fair weather cometh out of the north.
_Job xxxvii. 22._
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
_Job xxxviii. 2._
The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted
for joy.
_Job xxxviii. 7._
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy
proud waves be stayed.
_Job xxxviii. 11._
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the
bands of Orion?
_Job xxxviii. 31._
Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
_Job xxxviii. 32._
He smelleth the battle afar off.
_Job xxxix. 25._
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?
_Job xli. 1._
Hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
_Job xli. 24._
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
_Job xli. 31._
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye
seeth thee.
_Job xlii. 5._
His leaf also shall not wither.
_Psalm i. 3._
Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
_Psalm iv. 6._
Out of the mouth of babes[818-1] and sucklings.
_Psalm viii. 2._
Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.[818-2]
_Psalm viii. 5._
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
_Psalm xiv. 1; liii. 1._
He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
_Psalm xv. 4._
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places;[818-3] yea, I
have a goodly heritage.
_Psalm xvi. 6._
Keep me as the apple of the eye,[818-4] hide me under the shadow
of thy wings.
_Psalm xvii. 8._
The sorrows of death compassed me.
_Psalm xviii. 4._
He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the
wings of the wind.[818-5]
_Psalm xviii. 10._
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth
his handiwork.
_Psalm xix. 1._
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth
knowledge.[819-1]
_Psalm xix. 2._
And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
_Psalm xix. 6._
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
_Psalm xix. 10._
I may tell all my bones.
_Psalm xxii. 17._
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside
the still waters.[819-2]
_Psalm xxiii. 2._
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.[819-3]
_Psalm xxiii. 4._
My cup runneth over.[819-4]
_Psalm xxiii. 5._
From the strife of tongues.
_Psalm xxxi. 20._
He fashioneth their hearts alike.[819-5]
_Psalm xxxiii. 15._
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
_Psalm xxxiv. 13._
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen[819-6] the
righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
_Psalm xxxvii. 25._
Spreading[819-7] himself like a green bay-tree.
_Psalm xxxvii. 35._
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.
_Psalm xxxvii. 37._
While I was musing the fire burned.[819-8]
_Psalm xxxix. 3._
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what
it is; that I may know how frail I am.[820-1]
_Psalm xxxix. 4._
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.[820-2]
_Psalm xxxix. 5._
He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not[820-3] who shall gather
them.
_Psalm xxxix. 6._
Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
_Psalm xli. 1._
As the hart panteth after the water-brooks.[820-4]
_Psalm xlii. 1._
Deep calleth unto deep.[820-5]
_Psalm xlii. 7._
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
_Psalm xlv. 1._
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble.[820-6]
_Psalm xlvi. 1._
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount
Zion,[820-7] . . . the city of the great King.
_Psalm xlviii. 2._
Man being in honour abideth not; he is like the beasts that
perish.[820-8]
_Psalm xlix. 12, 20._
The cattle upon a thousand hills.
_Psalm l. 10._
Oh that I had wings like a dove!
_Psalm lv. 6._
We took sweet counsel together.
_Psalm lv. 14._
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
acquaintance.[820-9]
_Psalm lv. 15._
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in
his heart.[821-1]
_Psalm lv. 21._
My heart is fixed.
_Psalm lvii. 7._
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will
not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so
wisely.[821-2]
_Psalm lviii. 4, 5._
Vain is the help of man.
_Psalm lx. 11; cviii. 12._
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a
lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than
vanity.[821-3]
_Psalm lxii. 9._
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.[821-4]
_Psalm lxxii. 6._
His enemies shall lick the dust.
_Psalm lxxii. 9._
As a dream when one awaketh.
_Psalm lxxiii. 20._
Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor
from[821-5] the south.
_Psalm lxxv. 6._
He putteth down one and setteth up another.
_Psalm lxxv. 7._
They go from strength to strength.
_Psalm lxxxiv. 7._
A day[821-6] in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had
rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in
the tents of wickedness.[821-7]
_Psalm lxxxiv. 10._
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
kissed each other.
_Psalm lxxxv. 10._
A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is
past,[822-1] and as a watch in the night.
_Psalm xc. 4._
We spend our years as a tale that is told.[822-2]
_Psalm xc. 9._
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength
labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly
away.[822-3]
_Psalm xc. 10._
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.
_Psalm xc. 12._
Establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of
our hands establish thou it.[822-4]
_Psalm xc. 17._
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God;
in him will I trust.[822-5]
_Psalm xci. 2._
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for . . .
the destruction that wasteth at noonday.[822-6]
_Psalm xci. 6._
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow
like a cedar in Lebanon.[822-7]
_Psalm xcii. 12._
The noise of many waters.
_Psalm xciii. 4._
The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice.[822-8]
_Psalm xcvii. 1._
As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he
flourisheth.[823-1]
_Psalm ciii. 15._
The wind passeth over it, and it is gone;[823-2] and the place
thereof shall know it no more.
_Psalm ciii. 16._
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
_Psalm civ. 15._
Man goeth forth unto his work[823-3] and to his labour until the
evening.
_Psalm civ. 23._
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great
waters.[823-4]
_Psalm cvii. 23._
At their wits' end.
_Psalm cvii. 27._
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the
beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the
dew of thy youth.[823-5]
_Psalm cx. 3._
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
_Psalm cxvi. 11._
Precious[823-6] in the sight of the Lord is the death of his
saints.
_Psalm cxvi. 15._
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of
the corner.[823-7]
_Psalm cxviii. 22._
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy
testimonies are my meditations.[823-8]
_Psalm cxix. 99._
A lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.[823-9]
_Psalm cxix. 105._
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by
night.[824-1]
_Psalm cxxi. 6._
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity[824-2] within thy
palaces.
_Psalm cxxii. 7._
He giveth his beloved sleep.
_Psalm cxxvii. 2._
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.
_Psalm cxxvii. 5._
Thy children like olive plants[824-3] round about thy table.
_Psalm cxxviii. 3._
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine
eyelids.[824-4]
_Psalm cxxxii. 4; Proverbs vi. 4._
Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren[824-5] to
dwell together in unity.
_Psalm cxxxiii. 1._
We hanged our harps upon the willows.[824-6]
_Psalm cxxxvii. 2._
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
cunning.
_Psalm cxxxvii. 5._
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell[824-7] in the
uttermost parts of the sea.
_Psalm cxxxix. 9._
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[824-8]
_Psalm cxxxix. 14._
Put not your trust in princes.
_Psalm cxlvi. 3._
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
_Proverbs i. 10._
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the street.
_Proverbs i. 20._
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches
and honour.
_Proverbs iii. 16._
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
_Proverbs iii. 17._
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all
thy getting get understanding.
_Proverbs iv. 7._
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more
and more unto the perfect day.
_Proverbs iv. 18._
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
_Proverbs vi. 6._
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
hands to sleep.
_Proverbs vi. 10; xxiv. 33._
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as
an armed man.
_Proverbs vi. 11._
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
_Proverbs vi. 27._
As an ox goeth to the slaughter.
_Proverbs vii. 22; Jeremiah xi. 19._
Wisdom is better than rubies.
_Proverbs viii. 11._
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
_Proverbs ix. 17._
He knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are
in the depths of hell.
_Proverbs ix. 18._
A wise son maketh a glad father.
_Proverbs x. 1._
The memory of the just is blessed.
_Proverbs x. 7._
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
_Proverbs x. 15._
In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
_Proverbs xi. 14; xxiv. 6._
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
_Proverbs xi. 15._
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which
is without discretion.
_Proverbs xi. 22._
The liberal soul shall be made fat.
_Proverbs xi. 25._
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender
mercies of the wicked are cruel.
_Proverbs xii. 10._
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
_Proverbs xiii. 12._
The way of transgressors is hard.
_Proverbs xiii. 15._
He that spareth his rod hateth his son.
_Proverbs xiii. 24._
Fools make a mock at sin.
_Proverbs xiv. 9._
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not
intermeddle with his joy.
_Proverbs xiv. 10._
The prudent man looketh well to his going.
_Proverbs xiv. 15._
The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
_Proverbs xiv. 23._
The righteous hath hope in his death.
_Proverbs xiv. 32._
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
_Proverbs xiv. 34._
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
_Proverbs xv. 1._
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
_Proverbs xv. 13._
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
_Proverbs xv. 15._
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
_Proverbs xv. 17._
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
_Proverbs xv. 23._
A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps.
_Proverbs xvi. 9._
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.
_Proverbs xvi. 18._
The hoary head is a crown of glory.
_Proverbs xvi. 31._
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
_Proverbs xvi. 32._
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is
of the Lord.
_Proverbs xvi. 33._
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it.
_Proverbs xvii. 8._
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
_Proverbs xvii. 9._
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
_Proverbs xvii. 22._
The eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
_Proverbs xvii. 24._
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
_Proverbs xvii. 27._
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.
_Proverbs xvii. 28._
A wounded spirit who can bear?
_Proverbs xviii. 14._
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.
_Proverbs xviii. 22._
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is
a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
_Proverbs xviii. 24._
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
_Proverbs xix. 17._
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
_Proverbs xx. 1._
Every fool will be meddling.
_Proverbs xx. 3._
The hearing ear and the seeing eye.
_Proverbs xx. 12._
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but when he is gone
his way, then he boasteth.
_Proverbs xx. 14._
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a
brawling woman in a wide house.
_Proverbs xxi. 9._
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
_Proverbs xxii. 1._
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he
will not depart from it.
_Proverbs xxii. 6._
The borrower is servant to the lender.
_Proverbs xxii. 7._
Remove not the ancient landmark.
_Proverbs xxii. 28; xxiii. 10._
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before
kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
_Proverbs xxii. 29._
Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
_Proverbs xxiii. 2._
Riches certainly make themselves wings.
_Proverbs xxiii. 5._
As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
_Proverbs xxiii. 7._
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
_Proverbs xxiii. 21._
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
colour in the cup; . . . at the last it biteth like a serpent,
and stingeth like an adder.
_Proverbs xxiii. 31, 32._
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth
strength.
_Proverbs xxiv. 5._
If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.
_Proverbs xxiv. 10._
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
_Proverbs xxv. 11._
Heap coals of fire upon his head.
_Proverbs xxv. 22._
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far
country.
_Proverbs xxv. 25._
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse
causeless shall not come.
_Proverbs xxvi. 2._
Answer a fool according to his folly.
_Proverbs xxvi. 5._
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a
fool than of him.
_Proverbs xxvi. 12._
There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
_Proverbs xxvi. 13._
Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
_Proverbs xxvi. 16._
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
_Proverbs xxvi. 27._
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day
may bring forth.
_Proverbs xxvii. 1._
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
_Proverbs xxvii. 5._
Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
_Proverbs xxvii. 6._
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman
are alike.
_Proverbs xxvii. 15._
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his
friend.
_Proverbs xxvii. 17._
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
_Proverbs xxvii. 22._
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold
as a lion.
_Proverbs xxviii. 1._
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
_Proverbs xxviii. 20._
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
_Proverbs xxix. 18._
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
_Proverbs xxx. 8._
The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.
_Proverbs xxx. 15._
In her tongue is the law of kindness.
_Proverbs xxxi. 26._
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the
bread of idleness.
_Proverbs xxxi. 27._
Her children arise up and call her blessed.
_Proverbs xxxi. 28._
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
_Proverbs xxxi. 29._
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain.
_Proverbs xxxi. 30._
Vanity of vanities, . . . all is vanity.
_Ecclesiastes i. 2; xii. 8._
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.
_Ecclesiastes i. 4._
The eye is not satisfied with seeing.
_Ecclesiastes i. 8._
There is no new thing under the sun.
_Ecclesiastes i. 9._
Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It
hath been already of old time, which was before us.[830-1]