PROVERBS
The following proverbs are from various sources outside the Bible.
| An idle youth becomes in age a beggar. Idle people take the most pains. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions. |
| --Franklin. |
| Haste makes waste and waste makes want. The more haste the less speed. Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. |
| --Dryden. |
| Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. |
| --Hannah More. |
| God is always at leisure to do good to those that ask it. God helps those who help themselves. What we gave we have, what we spent we had, what we left we lost. |
| --Epitaph of Edward, Earl of Devon. |
| You may know him by the company he keeps. Better alone than in bad company. A guilty conscience needs no accuser. Content is more than a kingdom. Deeds not words. A goodly outside apple rotten at the heart, O what a goodly outside falsehood hath. |
| --Shakespeare. |
| Cleanliness is next to godliness. |
| --Wesley. |
| They conquer who believe they can. |
| --Virgil. |
| Never make a mountain out of a mole hill. Employ thy time well, and since thou art not sure of a minute throw not away an hour. Virtue is its own reward. |
| --Prior. |
| Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. |
| --Franklin. |
| Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. |
| --Franklin. |
| Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the blossoms, Kind deeds are the fruits. |
| --New Education Reader. |
| Do you know how many children, Go to little beds at night, And, without a care or trouble, Wake up with the morning light? God in heaven each name can tell; Knows you, too, and knows you well. |
| --New Education Reader. |
| Be kind and be gentle, To those who are old, For kindness is dearer And better than gold. |
| --New Education Reader. |
| Please is a very little word, And thank-you is not long. |
| Jesus loves me, this I know, For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong, I am weak, but He is strong. |
| Love God with all your soul and strength, With all your heart and mind, And love your neighbor as yourself, Be faithful, just, and kind. Deal with another as you'd have Another deal with you: What you're unwilling to receive, Be sure you never do. |
| --New England Primer. |
| Politeness is to do or say The kindest thing in the kindest way. |
| --New Education Reader. |
| Do all the good you can In all the ways you can, For all the people you can Just as long as you can. |
| --Lippincott's Beginner's Reading Book. |
| Be to others kind and true, As you'd have others be to you. |
| --New Education Reader. |
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