...you have many advantages, and you may easily go farther and fare worse. Those are true proverbs, " A rolling stone gathers no moss" — " A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." " The dog that grasped at a shadow lost the substance." " I was well, would be better,...

...difference in weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun...

...difference of weight being compensated by time ;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay whilst the sun...

...difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...selected as a picture, or parable, of a moral truth. Thus—a rolling stone gathers no moss; a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; a cripple, in...

...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay while the sun...

...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay while the sun...

...difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...technical use. '• In like manner, the memorable words of his~ tory, and the proverbs of nations, consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or...

...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun...

...difference of weight being compensated by time ;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay whilst the sun...

...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...use. In like manner, the memorable words of history, and'the proverbs of nations, consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of...