lows to the pile to sigh--
He is friend, and he is kinsman; less would make the name a lie."

* * * * *

"Stars gleam, lamps flicker, friends foretell of fate;
The fated sees, knows, hears them--all too late."

* * * * *

"Absent, flatterers' tongues are daggers--present, softer than the
silk;
Shun them! 'tis a draught of poison hidden under harmless milk;
Shun them when they promise little! Shun them when they promise much!
For enkindled, charcoal burneth--cold, it doth defile the touch."

* * * * *

"In years, or moons, or half-moons three,
Or in three days--suddenly,
Knaves are shent--true men go free."

* * * * *

"Anger comes to noble natures, but leaves there no strife or storm:
Plunge a lighted torch beneath it, and the ocean grows not warm."

"Noble hearts are golden vases--close the bond true metals make;
Easily the smith may weld them, harder far it is to break.
Evil hearts are earthen vessels--at a touch they crack a-twain,
And what craftsman's ready cunning can unite the shards again?"

"Good men's friendships may be broken, yet abide they friends at heart;
Snap the stem of Luxmee's lotus, but its fibres will not part."

* * * * *

"One foot goes, and one foot stands,
When the wise man leaves his lands."

* * * * *

"Over-love of home were weakness; wheresoe'er the hero come,
Stalwart arm and steadfast spirit find or make for him a home.
Little recks the awless lion where his hunting jungles lie--
When he enters them be certain that a royal prey shall die."

* * * * *

"Very feeble folk are poor folk; money lost takes wit away:
All their doings fail like runnels, wasting through the summer day."

"Wealth is friends, home, father, brother--title to respect and fame;
Yea, and wealth is held for wisdom--that it should be so is shame."

"Home is empty to the childless; hearts to those who friends deplore:
Earth unto the idle-minded; and the three worlds to the poor."

"Say the sages, nine things name not: Age, domestic joys and woes,
Counsel, sickness, shame, alms, penance; neither Poverty disclose.
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