1614 American Proverbs / Page 56
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Pain is forgotten where gain comes.1102.
Patience wears out stones.1103.
Pay your debts or lose your friends.1104.
Perhaps no one has a finer command of a language than he who keeps his mouth shut.1105.
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.1106.
Persistence will accomplish more than force.1107.
Philosophy means being able to explain why you are happy when you are poor.1108.
Plough your furrows deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.1109.
Poets are born, not made.1110.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.1111.
Possession is nine-tenths of the game.1112.
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.1113.
Practice what you preach.1114.
Praise makes a bad man worse.1115.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.1116.
Prayer is a wish turned upward.1117.
Prayer is food for the soul.1118.
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.1119.
Pride is the last vice a good man gets clear of.1120.
Pride often apes humility.