PROVERBS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1373, 13 March 1915, Page 4

PROVERBS.

TO BE OBSERVED BY AEE THOSE WHO WOUED THRIVE.

As printed in "The Way to Turn a Penny, or the Art of Thriving,” originally published in Dublin, 1709, wherein it is shown that the recipes for business success over two centuries ago were not dissimilar from the recipes today. Rely not on another for what thou can’st do thyself. On a good bargaiu think twice. He who lies long iu bed, his estate feels it. He who looks not before, finds himselt behind. ' Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number. Trade is the mother of money. He who has lost his credit, is lost to the world. It is better to go to bed supperless than rise in debt. A man may lose his goods, for want of demanding them. You may speak with your gold, and make other tongues dumb. It is good enough to begin well, but better to end well. Things hardly attained are long retained. Industry is Fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left. Eet your letter stay for the post, and not the post for your letter ; that is, be always beforehand with your business.

One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants. The skilfullest man is scorned, if he be destitute of money. Money is that which art hath turned up trumps. A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.

There is no companion like the penny.

Riches are but the baggage of fortune. He who serves well need not be afraid to ask for bis wages; for bis own merit gives him boldness. They must hunger in frost, who will not work in heat. Better spare to have of thine own, than to ask other men. Be not idle, and you shall not be longing. He is not poor, who hath little ; but the coveteous man is poor indeed. Virtue and a trade are the best portions for children. A tradesman who gains not, loseth.

He who gets out of debt, grows rich. He who is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, not wise at fitly, will never be handsome, strong, rich nor whe.

Would you know what money is, go borrow some. A penny spared is twice got. If a good man tlnive, all thrive with him. Better thrive late than never. He who gotth a borrowing, goelh a sorrowing. He who bath but one hog, makes him fat; and he who hath but one son, makes him a fool.