 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1899 - 120 pages
...bridge was loose, and they all tumbled in, What a precious concern ! cried Bryan O'Lin. A MAN OF WORDS. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. BE sure you are right, then go ahead. LONDON BRIDGE. London bridge is broken down, Dance over my Lady... | |
 | Abraham Jay Demarest - English language - 1900 - 156 pages
...He says that they do not know just how to drive. In the morning he will teach them. TO BE MEMORIZED. A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. Do your best, your very best, And do it every day; Little boys and little girls, That is the wisest... | |
 | Abraham Jay Demarest, William Maturin Van Sickle - Children's poetry - 1900 - 158 pages
...He says that they do not know just how to drive. In the morning he will teach them. TO BE MEMORIZED. A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. Do your best, your very best, And do it every day ; Little boys and little girls, That is the wisest... | |
 | John Smith - Bible - 1901 - 262 pages
...Him, let your answer be, " Here am I, send me." There is something for every one to do. Remember " A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds." For there is no truth more important to learn than this, that to admire what is right is one thing,... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Proverbs - 1902 - 290 pages
...the value of the caution that " In lavishing words one wears out ideas." An old rhyme hath it that " A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds," and a grave old writer advises us on this that " The way of God's commandments is more in doing than in... | |
 | Emma K. Gordon - Readers (Elementary) - 1902 - 136 pages
...then another, And the highest wall is made. One flake and then another, And the deepest snow is laid. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds; For when the weeds begin to grow, Then doth the garden overflow." shining dancing fairy break Children,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1903 - 138 pages
...looked round, and found that the Ape had used the time to crack the nuts and eat them. A MAN OF WORDS. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. London bridge is broken down, Dance over my Lady Lee; London bridge is broken down, With a gay lady.... | |
 | Wilhelm Viëtor - 1904 - 352 pages
...deeds, 30 Is like a garden full of weeds; Viëtor u. Dörr, engl. Lesebuch. Unterstufe.^ 7. Aufl. 2 And when the weeds begin to grow It's like a garden full of snow ; And when the snow begins to fall, It's like a bird upon the wall ; 5 And when the bird away does fly, It's like an eagle in the sky ;... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 562 pages
...* From Indian Wisdom by Hunicr Williams, It is better to Jo well than to say well. —MORAL MAXIM. A man of words, and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. The only things in which we can be said to have any property, are our actions. Our thoughts may be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1904 - 500 pages
...plants; you may remember an ancient poet, whose works we have all studied and copied at school long ago: A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. It is a pity that good works, among some sorts of people, are so little valued, and good words admired... | |
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A MAN of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds; And when the weeds begin to grow, It's like a garden full of snow... 
