Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources Quotes

“He who will not freely and sadly confess that he is much a fool is all a fool.”
― William Alexander Clouston, Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

“By a husband wealth is accumulated; by a wife is its preservation.”
― William Alexander Clouston, Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

“When anyone is modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he is really so.”
― William Alexander Clouston, Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

“The hooting fowler seldom takes much game.”
― William Alexander Clouston, Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

“It is not enough to know; we must apply what we know. It is not enough to will; we must also act.”
― W.A. Clouston, Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

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― W.A. Clouston, Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

“If your foot slip, you may recover your balance, but if your tongue slip, you cannot recall your words.”
― W.A. Clouston, Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

“The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.”
― W.A. Clouston, Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources