...fool. As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him. 3. Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than...house full of sacrifices * with strife. Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right. Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for...

...fool. As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him. 3. Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than...house full of sacrifices * with strife. Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right. Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for...

...to learn how independent happiness is of outward circumstances; and how truly the Bible declares, " Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife." Prov. xvii, 1. Their mothers knew better than Linda and Carrie how often misery and discontent are...

...corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house" (Prov. xxi. 9) ; and again, " Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife" (Prov. xvii. 1). With these compare the two proverbs, a Latin and a Spanish, adduced below.* The psalmist...

...man to God, his beginning and his end ; and let us do justice to the proverb of the wise man — " Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife"* — a pious maxim which, poured into the heart of the man of labour and suffering, softens his woes...

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...fool. As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him. 3. Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than...house full of sacrifices * with strife. Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right. Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for...

...pleasing feelings in the hearts of the pious. On the other hand, how painful is the sight of contentions! "Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife." Prov. xvii, 1. To conclude : Let us try to obtain, and to retain, this great blessing. " Mark them...

...therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." — " Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices, with strife." So says the wisest of men: and with him agrees the Psalmist, "A little that a righteous man hath is...

...(and so we are all at least by nature) to live together in unity. How that, as xvii. Solomon saith, Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife. How delicious that conversation is, which is accompanied with a mutual confidence, freedom, courtesy,...