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It must be confessed, however, that there are disorders in this life, which appear especially in the prosperity of sundry evil men and in the misfortune of many good people. There is a German proverb which even grants the advantage to the evil ones, as if they were commonly the most fortunate: Je krümmer Holz, je bessre Krücke: Je ärger Schalck, je grösser Glücke.
"Precious or not, they must stay where they are till the shot-holes are plugged, unless you choose to carry them yourselves." "Oh, sacrilegious heretic, we will be revenged on you some day," muttered one of the priests, while the other hurled some curses at Nigel's head, to which he did not stop to listen, remembering the proverb that "Curses, like birds, go home to roost at night."
His vigor of body was famous in all the countryside. "He is as strong as Saint Anthony," had become a kind of proverb. At the time of the Prussian invasion Saint Anthony, at the wine shop, promised to eat an army, for he was a braggart, like a true Norman, a bit of a, coward and a blusterer.
There is an old Oriental proverb which says, 'Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. I believe also that the worst the very worst CANNOT be done to those who think steadily steadily only of the best. To you that is merely superstition to be laughed at. That is a matter of opinion. But don't go on with this thing DON'T GO ON WITH IT. Stop and think it over."
The pros for August consisted mainly of the pith of a proverb and a bit of mad Ophelia's sanity: "There is no time like the present" and "We know what we are, but know not what we may be!" At present we have a good horse, Larry, and plenty of time, the con being, suppose we have a dry, hot autumn.
Nine-tenths of the misery of suffering lies in the power of forecasting its continuance and its increase, and the lesser patience of which I have spoken is the patience which, by no effort of reason, but by pure instinct, hears the burden of the moment in the spirit of the proverb that "sufficient for the day is the evil thereof."
The English have a proverb, that says 'Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil! I had often heard this mentioned, but never saw one upon his way before." Monthly Mag. We remember to have seen in Paris a man in a sort of chaise, grinding an organ, drawn by two ponies, and followed by a boy begging from house to house.
Mark's gaze met the savage eyes that gleamed like a famished panther's, with an expression too calm for defiance, though there might have been perhaps a shade of contempt. "Of course I shall guard my own life as best I may, either here or elsewhere, but I do not apprehend it is in great danger. There is an old proverb about 'threatened men; they are not killed so easily as women are betrayed.
And, indeed, if modern philosophers had stuck more closely to this old proverb, and its defining verb "make," and tried to show how some person or persons let them be who they may men, angels, or gods made the sow's ear into the silk purse, and the savage into the sage they might have pleaded that they were still trying to keep their feet upon the firm ground of actual experience.
Wherefore I say to you, Agathon, 'Be not deceived by him; learn from me and take warning, and do not be a fool and learn by experience, as the proverb says. When Alcibiades had finished, there was a laugh at his outspokenness; for he seemed to be still in love with Socrates.
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