Quotes by James Howell - Page 1

We learn by teaching.
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Teacher
Teaching
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After rain comes fair weather.
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Fairs
Rain
Weather
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Love is the life of friendship.
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Love Is
Real
Real Friends
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Little sins are pioneers of hell.
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Littles
Pioneers
Sin
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Fly and you will catch the swallow.
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Aviation
Flight
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Respect a man, he will do the more.
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Respect
Men
Army
Dignity
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Words and works eat not at one table.
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Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
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Loss
Physicians
Weight Loss
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Respect a man, he will do it the more.
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Respect
Man Will More
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Man's best candle is his understanding.
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Men
Candle
Understanding
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Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.
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Easter
Chocolate Eggs
Gone
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Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.
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Friends
Book
Choices
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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Business
Money
Debtors
Memories
Creditor
Debtor
Hath
Memory
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Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.
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Art
Sculpture
Shapes
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Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
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Men
Candle
Fingers
Snuff
Another
Burn
Thy
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God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.
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Religion
Religious
Thinking
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Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
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Easter
Seems
Thee
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We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.
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Ifs
Saved
Sin
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This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
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Life
Hotel
Inns
Passengers
Inn
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Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
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Fame
Noon
Till
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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
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Women
Hair
Hundred
Oxen
Pairs
Woman
Draw
Pair
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He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
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Hypocrisy
Names
Sleep
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Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
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Absence
Distance
Sometimes
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He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.
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Money
Purses
Want
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He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
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Friendship
Enemy
True Friend
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God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.
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Enemy
Real
Real Friends
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A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
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Secret
Three
Two
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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
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May
People
Philosophy
Common People
Proverbs
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Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
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Errands
Political
Soul
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Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
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Home
Paint
Used
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In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
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Adversity
Prosperity
Twenties
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All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
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Prepared
Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Today Tomorrow Better
Today Better Yesterday
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Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
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Bees
Calves
World
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Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
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Nature
Advice
Doe
Research
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Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.
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Distance
Loss
Real
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Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
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Men
Blood
Wine
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Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.
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Home
House
Paint
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The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.
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Cracks
Giving
Teeth
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We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.
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Evil
Parent
Pioneers
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French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
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Men
Blood
Wine
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