Index to Proverbs

of

Don Quixote.

Patch grief with proverbs.—Shakespeare.

Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1882.

Copyright, 1882, By Roberts Brothers.

University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

• Actions, when prejudicial, not to be recorded, 106.
• Advice, a woman's, to be taken, 120.
• Affront, an, to be maintained, 177.
• Animals, lessons to be learned from, 127.
• Analysis of fables, 87.
• Army, the, a school for generosity, 82.
• Associates, character indicated by self-chosen ones, 124.
• Beauty, all does not inspire to love, 49.
• Beauty in a modest woman, 49.
• Beautiful objects infinite, 49.
• Benefits conferred on the base, 61.
• Bird, a, in the hand, 71, 120, 127, 282.
• Birds, none in last year's nests, 218.
• Biters, the, are bit, 245.
• Book, good in every, 109.
• Books, no, no bacon, 124.
• Brevity pleasing, 60.
• Building on impossibilities, 74.
• By-and-by, the streets of, 162.
• Cats, by night all are gray, 180.
• Church, the, the court, the sea, 83.
• Clergyman, a, what he should be to be beloved, 33.
• Companions, a man known by his, 124.
• Comparisons offensive, 104.
• Course, the middle, the one of valor, 104.
• Customs not all invented at once, 6.
• Death, a remedy for everything but, 210.
• Delay breeds danger, 86, 281.
• Devil, the, assumes an angel form, 74.
• Diligence, the mother of success, 86.
• Disquietude designed for knights, 34.
• Drinker, a good, covered by a bad cloak, 186.
• Enemy, an, the merits of his cause, 209.
• Epics, prose, 88.
• Ermine, an, a modest woman compared to, 73.
• Fables, analysis of, 87.
• Fast bind, fast find, 120.
• Fear, the effect of, 49.
• Fiction, better as it resembles truth, 87.
• Finger, a, between two eye-teeth, 215.
• Flattery, the sway of, 145.
• Forewarned, forearmed, 132.
• Fortune, good, seldom comes single, 83.
• Fortune like a mill-wheel, 87.
• Friend, a, consolation, 62.
• Frying-pan, out of, 50.
• God's mercy more glorious than His justice, 210.
• Good in every book, 109.
• Gold, all that glitters is not, 244.
• Governing pleasant, 203.
• Gratitude, a compensation, 271; a duty, 61.
• Grievance, no, can keep the sufferer from kindness, 70.
• Handle, the right one of things, 56.
• Happiness as reckoned by sages, 130.
• History, a sacred subject, 108.
• History, faithful, will survive, 280.
• Holy days to be kept peacefully, 122.
• Hope and love coincident, 74.
• Host, to reckon without the, 104.
• Hypocrite, a, less dangerous than the open transgressor, 173.
• Jest, a painful, no jest, 272.
• Jesting, a time for, 123.
• Judge, a, should lean toward compassion, 209.
• King, serving the, in war, 173.
• Knights, all, not courteous, 118.
• Lance, the, never blunted the pen, 49.
• Learned men among mountains. 93.
• Leap, a, better than a prayer, 60.
• Liberality, the blessings of, 288.
• Liberty, the blessings of, 2.
• Light, the, shines upon all, 245.
• Lineages, two kinds of, 60.
• Liver, the good, the best preacher, 166.
• Love, a leveller, 29.
• Love, the eyes of, 70.
• Love, unconstrained, 49.
• Love, uncompromising, 56.
• Love, conquered by flight, 74.
• Love, vanities of, 76.
• Love, wears spectacles, 163.
• Lovers, external actions of, 124.
• Madness, the followers of, 129.
• Maiden, a, her reserve her defence, 104.
• Many littles make a mickle, 121.
• Man, a dishonored, 71.
• Manners, good, cheap, 202.
• Master, a, judged by his servants, 176.
• Mayor, he whose father is a, 214.
• Might overcomes, 86.
• Mischance, one, invites another, 70.
• Misfortunes never single, 70.
• Money willingly lent to officials, 118.
• Music, the effect of, 70.
• Nail, a, in Fortune's wheel, 162.
• Nature is like a potter, 176.
• Nobility, true, 76.
• Pains, those of others are easy to bear, 176.
• Patience, and shuffle the cards, 168.
• Paymaster, a good, needs no security, 176.
• Peace, no, in scruples of conscience, 104.
• Philosophers in cottages, 93.
• Purpose, the honest, favored, 76.
• Railing is neighbor to forgiveness, 281.
• Remedy, a, for everything but death, 210.
• Retreat sometimes wise, 61.
• Riches, two roads to, 120.
• Riches, of little avail against trouble, 62.
• Rome, when in, 264.
• Rules for obtaining excellence, 62.
• Seeing is believing, 128.
• Severity is not disdain, 50.
• Sleep, a cure for trouble, 280.
• Soldier, a covetous, a monster, 82.
• Soldier, equal to a captain, 34.
• Song, the relief of, 61.
• Sorrow, concealed, 73.
• Sorrow, a blessing, 128.
• Thing, a, begun is half finished, 202.
• Thing, a, the right handle of, 56.
• To-day here, to-morrow gone, 121.
• Tongues as weapons, 177.
• Tricks of a town, 86.
• Truffles, to look for, in the sea, 105.
• Truth, the mother of history, 29.
• Truth may bend, 124.
• Virtue more persecuted than beloved, 86.
• Walls have ears, 244.
• Wealth, its gratification is a right application, 119.
• Wise, a word to the, 202.
• Wit and humor, attributes of genius, 108.
• Woman, varieties of, 70.
• Woman, the burden to which she is born, 118.
• Woman, her advice, to be taken, 120.
• Yes or no of a woman, between the, 162.