Telugu.-Will empty words fill bellies? Arab.-He who has made a hole in the corn-sack has become a preacher. Arab.-A learned man without practice is a cloud without water. Tamul.-Hunger is appeased by eating: will it be so by looking at food? Moderation-i.e., Avoiding Extremes.-PHIL. 4. 5. Arab-In shunning the bear he fell into the pit. Persian.-Be not all sugar, or the world will swallow thee up; be not all wormwood, or the world will spit thee out. Turk.-To avoid the smoke, do not throw yourself into the fire. Bengal.-An excessive noise is of no use, Eccles. 7. 16. Malay. From fear of the ghost to clasp the corpse. Talmud.-Eight things difficult to enjoy in abundance, but in moderation good-labour, sleep, riches, journeying, love, warm water, bleeding, and wine. Malabar.-If you engrave it too much, it will become a hole. Tamul.-If taken to excess, even nectar is poison. Malay. To fall into the jaws of the tiger after escaping Russian.-Sweet as is honey, two spoonfuls of it cannot be taken at one time. China. While keeping a tiger from the front door the wolf enters in at the back. China.-The excess of joy is sorrow; of wine, drunkenness. Basque. The cord of a violin is broken in stretching it too much. Tamul.-Why eat, seeing you know not how to eat with moderation? Telugu. Because the sugar-cane is sweet, are you to chew it with the roots ? China. To call the tiger to chase away the dog. Tamul. It is said the snake, afraid of the charmer, sought the friendship of the rat. Basque.-By filling it too much the sack burst. Tamul.-Joy and grief must be regulated by moderation. Tamul.-Act as one who warms himself; do not burn your self. Sanskrit.-Excess is to be avoided in all things. Galic. Though the old woman is better of warming, she is not better of being burnt. The Mote in a Brother's Eye, a Beam in Your Own. MATT. 7. 3. Humility teaches us to regard others as better than ourselves. St. Paul, though the chief apostle, called himself the chief of sinners, 1 Tim. I. 15. Russian.-A pig came up to a horse and said, Your feet are crooked, and your hair is worth nothing. Bengal. The sieve says to the needle, You have a hole in your tail. Tamul.-The defects in the eyelash are not apparent to the eye. Japan.-At the foot of the lighthouse it is dark. Cingalese. The man without clothes busying himself in making jackets for dogs. China.-Let every one sweep the snow before his own door, and not busy himself with the frost on his neighbour's tiles. China.—The crow mocked the pig for his blackness. Kurd. When your house is of glass, do not throw stones at your neighbour's house. Bohemian.-The pot punishes the kettle; ye are both black. Malay.-The mortar's complaint to a drug. Modern Greek.-The ass said to the cock, Big-headed. Sanskrit. They know not their own defects who search for the defects of others. Stiff-necked.-Ps. 75. 5. The Jews were called a stiff-necked people, Acts 7. 51. The old world had its neck hardened by resisting the preaching of Noah for 120 years, 1 Pet. 3. 20; its people were swept away by the Flood, altogether unexpectedly to themselves, Luke 17. 26, 27. So were Sodom, Gen. 19, Eli's sons, I Sam. 3. 13. Pharaoh's hard neck was re proved by the Ten Plagues; but continuing obstinate in his rebellion against God, Pharaoh was overtaken with sudden destruction at the moment he thought himself sure of his prey, Ex. 14. 28. So Ahab, 1 Kings 17. I; 18. 18. Tamul.-A stubborn wife is a mat rolled up—i.e., useless. Russian. He bows to the ground, but bites his toes. Tamul.—A stubborn man and a crocodile are alike, they will not lose hold of what they have seized. Woman's Ornament the Hidden Man of the Heart. I PET. 3. 3, 4. The hidden man of the heart here means a meek and quiet spirit called the inner man, in contrast with the outer man, the body or countenance; thus Paul states, though his outer man perish, his inner man is renewed day by day, 2 Cor. 4. 16. See Solomon's description of a virtuous woman, Prov. 31. 10-31; a contentious. woman is compared to a continual dropping, Prov. 27. 15; she is a moth to consume her husband's estate. Women are to adorn themselves with shamefacedness, I Tim. 2. 8, 9. Ornaments in dress are condemned as exciting the passions, encouraging pride, hindering alms, 1 Tim. 2. 9, 10; wasting time, Eph. 5. 16, the prophets wore rough garments, as Elijah, 2 Kings 1. 8; Jezebel painted her face; Herod was arrayed gorgeously, and was eaten up of worms, Acts 12; so the rich man clad in purple before going to hell, Luke 16; so Absalom. Telugu.-The tamarind may be dried, but it loses not its acidity. Veman.-Look closely at musk; its hue indeed is dark, but its fragrance perfumes all things; thus hidden are the virtues of men of weight. China.-We ask four things for a woman- -that virtue dwell in her heart, modesty in her forehead, sweetness in her mouth, and labour in her hands. Chanak. As the sea defends the earth, a wall the roof, a king the nation; so does modesty a woman. Chanak. As the voice forms the beauty of the cuckoo, learning of an ugly man, mercy of an ascetic; so is conjugal fidelity the beauty of a woman.* Arab.-An immodest woman is food without salt, Luke 14. 34. China.-Modesty is woman's courage. Russian. -The man is the head of the woman, but she rules him by her temper. Russian.-The wife does not beat the husband, but her temper rules him. Japan.—When the hen crows the house goes to ruin. A bustling woman and crowing hen, Are neither fit for gods nor men. China.-Silence and blushing are the eloquence of a woman, Tit. 3. 3. Persian.-If you be a cock, crow; if a hen, lay eggs. Russian.—A woman's praise is in her household. Kural. Malay. Of what avail are prisons barred, A whole herd of buffaloes might be shut up in a pen, Turk.-Long hair, little brain, 1 Tim. 2. 9. Patient as the Husbandman.—Jas. 5. 7. Turk.-The tree falls not at a single stroke. Turk.-We mount the ladder step by step. *The English proverbs are -Beauty is but skin deep; is but dross if honesty be lost. Turk.-By patience grape juice becomes wine and the mulberry leaf satin. Turk.-With zeal and patience the mouse pierces a plank. Turk. We always make advance, says the tortoise-i.e.,. slow, but sure. Arab. Many locks are opened by patience. Arab.-It may be a fire, to-morrow it will be ashes. Persian.-Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit very sweet. Bengal.-Pull the ear, the head follows. Bengal.-Having a firm hold on all sides, mount the horse. increases. Malabar.-By running in the boat, do we come to land? Tamul.-Will the barking dog catch game? Malay.-Hillocks even are filled up by white ants. Tamul.—If a cloth be spread on a thorn-bush, it must be taken off with great care, Prov. 19. 2. Arab.—A poor man without patience is a lamp without oil. Sanskrit.-A jar is gradually filled by the falling of waterdrops. Cast not Pearls before Swine.-MATt. 7. 6. Tamul.-Like reading a portion of the Veda to a cow about to gore you. Telugu.-A garland of flowers in a monkey's paw. Tamul.-Though religious instruction be whispered into the ear of an ass, nothing will come of it but the accustomed braying. Arab. He who brings up the young of a snake will only get stung. Persian. It is folly to give comfits to a cow, Luke 7. 32. Veman.—If an unlucky fool should even find the philosopher's stone, it would never remain in his hands, but vanish; it would melt away like the hailstones that come with the rain, Prov. 12. 27. Veman.-Though you anoint an ass all over with perfumes, it feels not your fondness, but will turn again and. kick you, Mat. 7. 6; Prov. 27. 22. |