James Howell Citas

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  James Howell

  Profesor, Enseñanza

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”

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• El acreedor tiene mejor memoria que el deudor.

  James Howell

  Memories, Business, Debtors

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• Respect a man, he will do the more.

  James Howell

  Respeto, Ejército, Hombres

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• Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

  James Howell

  Distance, Sometimes, Absence

  James Howell (1908). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: the familiar letters of James Howell”

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• All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

  James Howell

  Ayer, hoy, mañana

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• Puede decirse que los vinos franceses no hacen más que encurtir la carne en el estómago, pero éste es el vino que digiere, y no sólo produce buena sangre, sino que también nutre, siendo un licor glutinoso sustancial; de este vino, si de cualquier otro, puede verificarse esa alegre inducción: Que el buen vino produce buena sangre, la buena sangre produce buenos humores, los buenos humores producen buenos pensamientos, los buenos pensamientos producen buenas obras, las buenas obras llevan al hombre al cielo, ergo, el buen vino lleva al hombre al cielo.

  James Howell

  Wine, Men, Blood

  James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

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• No nos salvamos de nada si no nos salvamos del pecado. Los pecados pequeños son pioneros del infierno. El reincidente comienza con lo que él tontamente considera pequeños pecados. No hay pecados pequeños. Hubo un tiempo en que todo el mal que ha existido en el mundo estaba comprendido en un pensamiento pecaminoso de nuestro primer padre; y todo el mal actual es la numerosa y horrible progenie de un pequeño pecado.

  James Howell

  Evil, Parent, Pioneers

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• He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

  James Howell

  Friendship, True Friend, Enemy

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”

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• One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

  James Howell

  Hair, Oxen, Pairs

  'Familiar Letters' (1645-55) bk. 2, letter 4

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• After rain comes fair weather.

  James Howell

  Rain, Weather, Fairs

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• Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

  James Howell

  Philosophy, People, May

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”, p.621

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• A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

  James Howell

  Two, Secret, Three

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• In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

  James Howell

  Adversity, Twenties, Prosperity

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• El buen vino hace buena sangre, la buena sangre causa buenos humores, los buenos humores causan buenos pensamientos, los buenos pensamientos producen buenas obras, las buenas obras llevan al hombre al cielo, ergo, el buen vino lleva al hombre al cielo.

  James Howell

  Wine, Men, Blood

  James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

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• Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

  James Howell

  Real, Distance, Loss

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• Ganso [pluma] abeja [cera] y becerro [pergamino] gobiernan el mundo.
  [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

  James Howell

  World, Bees, Calves

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• Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

  James Howell

  Loss, Weight Loss, Physicians

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• Words and works eat not at one table.

  James Howell

  Tablas

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”

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• God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

  James Howell

  Real, Real Friends, Enemy

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• Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

  James Howell

  Easter, Chocolate Eggs, Gone

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• Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

  James Howell

  Art, Sculpture, Shapes

  James Howell (1713). “Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign. Divided into four books, Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.206

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• God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

  James Howell

  Religioso, Pensamiento, Religión

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• Man's best candle is his understanding.

  James Howell

  Men, Understanding, Candle

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• He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

  James Howell

  Money, Want, Purses

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”, p.13

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• We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

  James Howell

  Sin, Saved, Ifs

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