| Quotes |
Topic |
| Apparel | Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead; And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head Fell carelessly behind. |
| Applause | Fare ye well, and give us your applause. |
| Charity | Charity begins at home. |
| Consistency | You are harping on the same string. |
| Example | We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. |
| Favors | No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. |
| Gain | From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. |
| Habit | I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must yield to them. |
| Habit | How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. |
| Hawks | The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those Who do us none at all. |
| Humility | Give place to your betters. |
| Knavery | Knavery's now its own reward. |
| Modesty | Give place to your betters. |
| Rumor | There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. |
| Sky | I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? |
| Suspicion | All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their conscious weakness, presume that they are neglected. |
| Suspicion | To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. |
| Uncertainty | When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. |
| Wishes | As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. |
| Work | Do not waste bricks. |
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