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Aesop
Appearances are often...
Appearances are often deceiving.
Source: 'The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing'
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Wealth unused might...
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
Source: In
Don't count your...
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Source: Fables, 'The Milkmaid...
It is in...
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Please all, and...
Please all, and you will please none.
Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel and...
We should look...
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
Source: In
It is not...
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Source: Fables, 'The Jay and the...
Beware that you...
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Source:...
Be content with...
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Source: From Ashleys...
Slow and steady...
Slow and steady wins the race.
Source: The Hare and the Tortoise.
-- Aesop, ( ...
Example is the...
Example is the best precept.
Source: In
Obscurity brings safety....
Obscurity brings safety.
Source: In
Any excuse will...
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Source: 'The Wolf and the Lamb'
-- Aesop, ( ...
Kindness effects more...
Kindness effects more than severity.
Source: 'The Wind and the Sun'
-- Aesop, ( ...
He that always...
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
I will have...
I will have nothing to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
Outside show is...
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Source: In
Thinking to get...
Thinking to get at once all the gold that the goose could give, he killed it, and opened it only to find -...
Little by little...
Little by little does the trick.
Source: In
Men often applaud...
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Source: In