Word: proverbs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...France, as if it were France itself. But perhaps it is well that Americans should know that there is another France--provincial France--not sufficiently appreciated and yet worthy of mature study. If Paris is the head of France then the provinces are the heart, and hence the proverb that 'Frances has a bad head, but a good heart...
...Robert E. Speer's address in the Union yesterday evening was a plea for ignorance of all uncleanness. The proverb that "knowledge is power," he said, is only half true. Some knowledge is indeed a source of power, but some is a source of weakness and death, or worse. And of those things of which knowledge may be worse than death, a man should have the courage and the will to remain absolutely ignorant...
Friendship is the full-grown team-play of life, and in my eyes there is no limit to its value. The old proverb tells us that we have as many uses for friendship as for fire and water. Never doubt it, for you know all these things, and bye and bye you will feel them all around you-in your hearts...