Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.
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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.
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Don't spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for.
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we c...
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
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He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide throu...
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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Proverbs 1:6:
For understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
(NIV)
That people may understand a proverb and a figure of speech or an enigma with its interpretation, and the words of the wise and their dark sayings or riddles.
(AMP)
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
(KJV)
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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.
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A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures
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I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of old. Things that we have heard and known, that our fathers told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell it to the coming generations.
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Romans 3:4:
Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: 'So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.'
(NIV)
By no means! Let God be found true though every human being is false and a liar, as it is written, That You may be justified and shown to be upright in what You say, and prevail when You are judged [by sinful men]. [Ps. 51:4.](AMP)
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
(KJV)
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Matthew 7:24:
'Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.'
(NIV)
So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts upon them [obeying them] will be like a sensible (prudent, practical, wise) man who built his house upon the rock.
(AMP)
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
(KJV)
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If God shuts one door, He opens another
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Matthew 7:26:
But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
(NIV)
And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them will be like a stupid (foolish) man who built his house upon the sand.
(AMP)
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
(KJV)
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Luke 9:28:
About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray.
(NIV)
Now about eight days after these teachings, Jesus took with Him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.
(AMP)
And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
(KJV)
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Luke 7:1:
When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum.
(NIV)
AFTER JESUS had finished all that He had to say in the hearing of the people [on the mountain], He entered Capernaum.
(AMP)
Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
(KJV)
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