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