Henry George Bohn Quotes

• He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

  Henry George Bohn

  Esteem, Knows

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.400

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• Freindships multiply joys and divide griefs

  Henry George Bohn

  Grief, Joy, Divides

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• He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

  Henry George Bohn

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.384

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• He preacheth patience that never knew pain

  Henry George Bohn

  Patience, Pain

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.381

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• He who has good health is young.

  Henry George Bohn

  Aging, Good Health, Young

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• Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

  Henry George Bohn

  Forgiveness, Vengeance

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• There is nothing can equal the tender hours
  When life is first in bloom,
  When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
  Finds everywhere perfume;
  When the present is all and it questions not
  If those flowers shall pass away,
  But pleased with its own delightful lot,
  Dreams never of decay.

  Henry George Bohn

  Dream, Flower, Heart

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• Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

  Henry George Bohn

  Funny, Patience, Time

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• Every dog is a lion at home.

  Henry George Bohn

  Dog, Home, Animal

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.349

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• Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

  Henry George Bohn

  Courage, Eye, Bravery

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1899). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages, and a Complete Alphabetical Index”

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• Use soft words in hard arguments.

  Henry George Bohn

  Use, Argument, Hard

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• An inch in a man's nose is much.

  Henry George Bohn

  Honesty, Men, Noses

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.312

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• A young trooper should have an old horse.

  Henry George Bohn

  Horse, Should Have, Should

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.304

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• Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

  Henry George Bohn

  Food, Cooking, Faults

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1893). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages”

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• The smile that illumines the features of beauty,
  When kindled by virtue, alluring appears;
  But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow,
  To vie with the softness of beauty in tears.
  The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving;
  Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears;
  But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling,
  And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears.

  Henry George Bohn

  Feelings, Magic, Cold Hearted

  Henry George Bohn (1867). “A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets”, p.623

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• The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.

  Henry George Bohn

  Mouths, Lawyer, Hell

  Henry George Bohn (1867). “A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs: Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English Translations and a General Index”, p.29, London : Bell & Daldy York street covent garden

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• He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

  Henry George Bohn

  Self, Masters

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.389

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• A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

  Henry George Bohn

  Veterans Day, Military, Blood

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• He who commences many things finishes but few.

  Henry George Bohn

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.399

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• Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right.

  Henry George Bohn

  Two, White

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• Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

  Henry George Bohn

  Good Luck, Long, Luck

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.364

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• Give and spend And God will send.

  Henry George Bohn

  Giving, Gods Will

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.361

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• If on creation's morn the king of heaven
  To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given,
  O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee
  Of shrubs and flowers the sovereign lord to be;
  The spotless emblem of unsullied truth,
  The smile of beauty and the glow of youth,
  The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers,
  The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers.

  Henry George Bohn

  Kings, Flower, Eye

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• Every potter praises his own pot.

  Henry George Bohn

  Potters, Praise, Pot

  Henry George Bohn (1867). “A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs: Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English Translations and a General Index”, p.443, London : Bell & Daldy York street covent garden

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• On paper curiously shaped
  Scribblers to-day of every sort,
  In verses Valentines ycled'd
  To Venus chime their annual court.
  I too will swell the motley throng,
  And greet the all auspicious day,
  Whose privilege permits my song
  My love this secret to convey.

  Henry George Bohn

  Song, Valentine, Secret

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