14 sayings with source references.
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It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 104
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There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 135
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Bootless grief hurts a man's self, but patience makes a jest of an injury.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 207
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Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 324
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He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 340
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Fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle of gold clapped upon a galled horse.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 357
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When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 423
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Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 471
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Learning is like Scanderbeg's sword, either good or bad according to him who hath it: an excellent weapon, if well used; otherwise, like a sharp razor in the hand of a child.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 479
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Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye on the mind's deformity.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 499
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Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 553
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A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 561
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If a man be not so happy as he desires, let this be his comfort--he is not so wretched as he deserves.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 70
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There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 98
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