James Howell Quotes

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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…
• This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
• Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.
• French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good…
• Fly and you will catch the swallow.
• God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.
• We learn by teaching.
• Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
• Man's best candle is his understanding.
• After rain comes fair weather.
• One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
• Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.
• He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
• All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
• Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
• Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
• Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.
• A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
• He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
• Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

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