James Howell Quotes
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He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.
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Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
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A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
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In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
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Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
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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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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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Words and works eat not at one table.
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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
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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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Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.
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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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Little sins are pioneers of hell.
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We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.
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Respect a man, he will do the more.
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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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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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Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
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Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.
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Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.
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Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
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Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
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This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
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Man's best candle is his understanding.
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God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.
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After rain comes fair weather.
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Love is the life of friendship.
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Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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We learn by teaching.
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