Excerpt from Proverbial Philosophy: Being Thoughts and Arguments Originally Treated Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: to what shall their rarity be likened? What price shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, no lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion, which Diligence loveth to gather, and hang around the neck of Memory: they be white-winged seeds of happiness, wafted from the islands of the blessed, which Thought carefully tend eth, in the kindly garden of the heart: they he drops of the golden dew, which the wings of angels scatter, when on some brighter sabbath, their plumes quiver most with delight: such, and so precious, are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter. Yet more, for the half is not said, of their might and dignity and value; for life-giving be they, and glorious, redolent of sanctity and heaven. As the fumes of hallowed incense, that veil the throne of the Most High; as the beaded bubbles that sparkle on the rim of the cup of immortality as wreaths of the rain bow spray, from the pure cataracts of Truth: such. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.