A word fitly spoken
Is like apples of gold
In baskets of silver.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat;
And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head,
And the Lord shall reward thee.
Seest thou a man hasty in his words?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth;
A stranger, and not thine own lips.
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. |