He, Hastening with his Feet, Stumbles.-PROV. 19. 2. Turk.-Step by step we mount the ladder.

Arab. Patience is the key of joy, but haste is the key of

sorrow.

Telugu.-Why do you cry before you are beaten, he asked; you are going to beat me in future, replied the boy. Afghan.-The Patan boy and his brother taking a short cut fell over the cliffs.

Afghan. He takes off his clothes before he reaches the

water.

China.-Silly birds fly first.

Russian.-Hurry is good only for catching flies.
Sanskrit.-A small beginning is good.

Sanskrit.-Debt, a sore, and a stain, will be effaced by time..
Sanskrit. Slowly, slowly place the foot.

The Swallow knows her Time, not so the Ignorant.JER. 7. 8.

The swallow, like various other birds, is a bird of passage. What was it that skimmed over the stream, where the ripples are so bright in the morning sunshine? It was the first swallow of the returning spring. It has come back in its season-the spring and summer-nor will it leave again till the leaves, which in spring burst from their buds, are withered and falling. When cold and winter are coming, the swallows often remain in a torpid state in the holes of walls or the banks of rivers. The swallow, like the Indian adjutant, is true to the divine law which concerns its return and its departure. It knows. the time to come and the time to go, and neither loses the summer pleasantness by delaying its return, nor runs the risk of suffering from the winter frost by prolonging its stay too late. How many do not begin the work of salvation till summer is over, and the winter of life is wellnigh at hand; when, if they work at all, they work with every disadvantage!

Kural. The learned have eyes, the ignorant have merely two spots on the face.

Slander is a Mall, a Sword, and a Sharp Arrow.

PROV. 25. 18.

The slanderer wounds three at once-himself, him he speaks of, and him that hears. If we cannot stop other's mouths, let us stop our own ears. As soon as a person takes pleasure in hearing slander, he is to be ranked in the number of slanderers. By the approbation of evil we become guilty of it. The witnesses against Naboth showed that a false witness is, in some respects, as bad as a murderer, 1 Kings 21. 13.

In the case of the two false witnesses against Christ the words were true, the evidence false; while they reported the words, they misreported the sense, and thus swore a true falsehood, and were truly foresworn, Mat. 26. 60, 61. So the witnesses against Stephen, Acts 6. 13, 14; Prov. 12. 17. In these last two instances it was not by direct falsehood, but by a partial statement of truth, that they involved themselves in the murder of the innocent; such were the masters of the damsel possessed with a spirit of divination, Acts 16. 21.

China. Sitting alone, meditate on your own faults—i.e., in conversation talk not of others.

China. The world's unfavourable view of your character and conduct is like the fleeting clouds from which the brightest day is not free.

Bengal. The mud sticks not to the back of a pankhal fish ; (which is smooth); so calumny with respect to an innocent person.

False Sympathy.-ROM. 12. 15.

Urdu.-One man's house is on fire, another warms himself by it.

Arab. He roasted his fish in the conflagration.

Telugu. When the sheep cries will the wolf be grieved? Telugu. When one man cried that his beard was on fire, another followed him asking him for a light for his cigar.

Telugu.-Is the bullock's sore tender to the cow ?

China.-He may sit in a tub of cold water, but it will not

steam.

Bengal. Sprinkling salt on a new cut wound-sic Job's comforters, Job 16. 2.

Polish. The ox bores with his horns the wounds; the woman with the tongue in her mouth.

Tamul.-A word that lacks sympathy and a rafter that lacks a nail, are useless.

Tamul. It is said that the wolf wept because the sheep were wet.

Turk.-If my beard is burnt, others try to light their pipe at it, Luke 10. 32.

Temperance, or Self-Control.—PROV. 13. 28.

Russian.-It is not the sword that kills nor the wine that makes drunk.

Turk.-The knife does not make the cook.

China.-Who can govern himself is fit to govern the world. Kural. As the hook guides the elephant, we should with the hook of firmness restrain our passions.

Turk.-The chimney never takes fire except from within. Russian. The nail is not guilty that the hammer beats it into the beam.

Mahratta.-Man has five senses; if any is not under control his reason will ooze out there as water out of a skin that is rent.

Russian.-Shut the door on the devil, but he will enter by the window.

Afghan.-Though the food was another's, the stomach was your own-i.e., over-eating not the fault of the food.

Tamul.-Why blame the arrow, the archer going free? Tamul.-No one cuts off the hand because it has struck

the eye.

Mahábhárat.-The gods do not, like cattle herds, guard men

by carrying clubs; but they endow with understanding him they wish to preserve.

Mahratta.-Man's body is a chariot, the charioteer is himself, and his passions are the horses; if the latter are well managed all goes well.

Temptation.—1 Cor. 5. 9, 10.

Temptations to sin are represented in the Bible as stumbling-blocks to trip up the unwary; as the wiles of the devil; as thorns in the flesh; as fiery darts; as sent for sifting; while we are to flee from sin as from the face of a serpent.

Afghan.-Shoes are tested on the feet; a man on trial. Turk. If you wish to keep company with a wolf have the dog near.

Bhagavatgita.

He who, as the tortoise does with its limbs,
Withdraws the senses from the sensual objects
everywhere,

His wisdom is confirmed.

China.-One dressed in clothes made of leaves going to put out a fire is in danger.

China. It is not beauty that beguiles men; men beguile themselves.

China.-Leisure breeds lasciviousness.

Russian.

The priest comes to us by the trodden path;
The devil comes to us by crossing the fields—

i.e., temptation comes from unexpected quarters.
Guilty is the wolf that has eaten the sheep;
Not guiltless is the sheep that strays into the woods-
i.e., we must be on our guard, however, not to go
into his path.

Turk.-The heart is a child, it desires what it sees. Turk.-The devil tempts man, but the idle man tempts the devil.

Arab. Where the eye does not see the heart does not grieve.

Telugu.-By experience we learn our weakness.

Telugu.-A man will not build a hut until he has been drenched, nor stoop until he has hit his head.

Veman.

The crocodile in water can destroy an elephant; The crocodile out of water is destroyed by a dogi.e., go not on the devil's ground.

Avoid Temptation.-COL. 2. 21.

Arab.-Follow the voice of a dog, not of a jackal; the one leads to the village, the other to the desert. If you do not want a fool's medicine, keep away from him.

Afghan.-Who lives with a blacksmith will at last carry away burnt clothes.

Afghan.-Have your ass tethered if you have a thief as your friend.

Afghan.-A low friendship lights a fire on the forehead. Russian.-Do not tread, doggie, in a wolf's footsteps; he will turn round and eat you.

Russian.-Our eyes are our enemies.

China.-Throwing on stubble to put out the fire. Tamul.-To roast a crab and set a fox to guard it. Telugu.-Without eating, you can't tell the taste; without going down into the water, you cannot tell the depth.

China. What the eye sees not, the heart is not vexed over. The well fed and well warmed indulge impure thoughts; the pined and starved encourage thoughts of stealing.

Afghan. The bird sees the grain but not the snare.
Japan.-The bird flying in the air troubles not the water.
Telugu. The fox offered his services for nothing to guard
the sheep.

Urdu.—Can fish remain in a kite's nest ?

Telugu.-Like ghi (melted butter) poured on fire.

Veman Telugu.-A crocodile while swimming in water can destroy an elephant; out of the stream it is discomfited easily by a dog. In the water a ship will float smoothly; out of it it cannot crawl even a cubit.

Malabar.-If you sit close to the mortar you will be struck by the pestle.

Tamul.-Play not with snakes; sic English "Play not with edged tools."

Afghan.-When edged tools are used, blood flows.

Persian. Where there is much fire the elephant's foot slips. China. Throw on stubble to put out the fire.

Turk.-He who fears the fire shuns smoke.