Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.--PROVERBS 20:19.
Men are like stone jugs,--you may lug them where you like by the ears.
--DR. JOHNSON.
Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they will
receive you into their bosoms.--FIELDING.
FLOWERS.--Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and
forgot to put a soul into.--BEECHER.
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers,
And they tell in a garland their loves and cares:
Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers
On its leaves a mystic language bears.
--PERCIVAL.
How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed
round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb.--MRS. L.M. CHILD.
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head and to
look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly
Maker.--SOUTH.
Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and
botanize them.--H.N. HUDSON.
And with childlike credulous affection
We behold their tender buds expand;
Emblems of our own great resurrection,
Emblems of the bright and better land.
--LONGFELLOW.
FOOLS.--He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity,
is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.--TILLOTSON.
The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but it has been
said that herein lies the difference,--the follies of the fool are
known to the world, but are hidden from himself; the follies of the
wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
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