Book of Wise Sayings / Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

by W. A. Clouston

• Parents’ affection, [154].
• Parsimony, [316].
• Passionate man, [74].
• Passions, [1], [2], [119], [280], [447].
• Past, present and future, [326].
• Patience, [42], [118], [135], [185], [207], [476].
• Peace, greatest, [406].
• Personal troubles, [31].
• Personation, [102].
• Physic and law, [167].
• “Physician, heal thyself,” [421].
• Pity, [124].
• Place, things out of, [237].
• Plagiarism, [96].
• Plans, miscarried, [327].
• Pleasure, [337].
• Pleasure and pain, [353].
• Pleasure in others’ welfare, [350].
• Poesy, [260].
• Poetaster, [217].
• Potter and clay, [377].
• Popular opinion, [76].
• Poverty, [44], [105], [121], [208], [245], [410], [422], [472].
• Praise and censure, [88], [104], [500], [501].
• Praise, how to merit, [130].
• Prayer, universal, [19].
• Prefaces to books, [550].
• Prejudices, [551].
• Premature actions, [264].
• Premature death, [122].
• Present affairs, [462].
• Present good despised, [213].
• Presents, [80], [456], [529].
• Pretence, [102].
• Pride, [107], [157], [159], [291], [338], [492], [497].
• Pride in religious works, [318].
• Profitable thing, [406].
• Progress, [487].
• Projects, [315], [405], [466].
• Promises, broken, [28].
• Prosperity, [10], [30], [56], [93], [175], [224], [350], [393], [477].
• Providence, [320].
• Purpose without power, [146].
• Pursuits, [203].

• Rabble among gentry, [358].
• Rashness, [473], [559].
• Reality, [546].
• Reason, [14], [299], [559].
• Reckless life reformed, [68].
• Regrets, useless, [298], [486].
• Remorse, [220].
• Reprehension, [75].
• Reproof, harsh, [553].
• Resignation, [538].
• Resolution, [12], [263].
• Respect, hatred, pity, [123].
• Restraint, [141].
• Reticence, [18], [586].
• Reviling to be borne, [587].
• Riches, [148], [187], [210], [281], [400], [401], [470], [471], [536].
• Ridiculous, cause of the, [292].
• Righteousness, [443].
• Romances, [419].

• Salvation, [257].
• Sea-margins of thought, [516].
• Secrets, [99], [221], [288], [489], [505].
• Seeming to be more than one is, [390].
• Self-conceit, [112].
• Self-conquest, [223].
• Self-contemning, [578].
• Self-control, [280].
• Self-depreciation, [282].
• Self-dissatisfaction, [46].
• Self-judging, [524].
• Self-knowledge, [152], [261].
• Self-love, [142], [370].
• Self-palliation, [467].
• Self-praises, [412].
• Self-reliance, [115].
• Self-seeking men, [338].
• Self-valuation, [328].
• Sensuality, [423].
• Serve from lowest station upwards, [335].
• Shadows of the mind, [226].
• Shame, [90], [256], [374].
• Silence, [22], [180], [244], [254], [438], [444], [465], [474], [556].
• Simpletons, bores, [579].
• Simplicity, [435], [488], [568].
• Sin, repeated, [170], [448].
• Single are we born, etc., [589].
• Slander, [69], [412], [560].
• Smatterers, [384].
• Society, [27], [258], [537].
• Son, good, [16].
• Sorrows, [6], [50], [61], [185], [381].
• Sparing and spending, [511].
• Speech, [180], [254], [438], [474].
• Strangers and kinsmen, [91].
• Stupidity, [515].
• Style in writing, [284].
• Subtle and dull minds, [278].
• Subtle-witted men, [278].
• Success, [149], [183], [578], [583].
• Successes, unexpected, [53].
• Suffering, [147].
• Superiority, [57], [527].
• Superstition, [356].
• Sweep your own doorstep, [507].
• Sympathy, [371].

• Taciturnity, [244], [526], [583].
• Talents and character, [576].
• Talkativeness, [182], [301], [359], [583].
• Temperance, [380].
• Temptation, [106].
• Things good and bad, [59].
• Things long desired, [392].
• Things to be guarded against, [155].
• Things universally valued, [399].
• Think before speaking, [474].
• Thorns and roses, [331].
• Thought, [114], [402], [516].
• Time, [79], [113], [325], [360].
• Titles of books, [283].
• To-day and to-morrow, [530], [531].
• Toil and pleasure, [349].
• Tongue and ears, [273].
• Trials, [51].
• Troubles, [202].
• Truth, lovers of, [246].
• Truth and severity, [332].

• Undertakings of the careless, [313].
• Universe, lessons of the, [48].

• Vacant mind, [229].
• Valour, [449].
• Vanity, cure of, [494].
• Vaticination, [462].
• Vices, [304], [340].
• Vicissitudes, [584].
• Virtue, [532], [589].
• Vociferation, [361].
• Voice, the human, [455].

• Weak and strong men, [236].
• Wealth, [77], [115], [148], [187], [210], [267], [400], [440], [449].
• Wicked associates, [215].
• Wicked, unstable, [411].
• Wickedness, odious in the learned, [469].
• Wife, [16], [161], [194], [200], [231], [232], [401], [406].
• Wisdom, [171], [482], [584].
• Wise men, [131], [227], [265], [533], [584].
• Wish, father to the thought, [212].
• Wishes, vain, [486].
• Wishes and powers, [293].
• Wit and fancy, [555].
• Wit and wisdom, [362], [558].
• Woman, [45], [164], [178], [230], [495], [509], [517].
• Words cannot be recalled, [228].
• Words, harsh, [192].
• Words without deeds, [211].
• World, a beautiful book, [49].
• Worldly fame and pleasure, [34], [158].
• Worst thing, [406].
• Wretched not to be mocked, [63].
• Writings, like dishes, books, like beauty, [96].

• Years, early, misspent, [480].
• Youth, negligence in, [81].
• Youth returns not, [319].

• Zeal, excessive, [586].

Transcriber’s Notes