| Thomas Ashe - 1815 - 326 páginas
...French adager " Dis moi ce que tu hantes, je te dirai qui tu es," which, in English, signifies, *' tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you what you are." If so, how was I to be judged of, or what pro&pect had I, when on the decay of my means, I declined... | |
| Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1826 - 958 páginas
...and the loaf for the living. To attend or be diligent for one's profit. Tell me «your company and I will tell you what you are ; birds of a feather flock together. Let him that has the toothache pull it out. 4ever put your thumb betwixt two grinders. To ask the cock... | |
| 1836 - 900 páginas
...; my son walk not thou in the way with them, : refrain thy foot from their path." The old adage, " Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you what you are," is founded on an accurate observation of the influence which our associates have in forming our... | |
| 1841 - 880 páginas
...so afraid of being considered as guilty of the sin of dissent, they should keep out of bad company. Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you what you are, is a good old maxim. And those who associate with dissenters in their doings, cannot surely feel... | |
| 1864 - 670 páginas
...alone need decide the style of our society, and in reading as in life the old axiom holds good, " Show me the company you keep and I will tell you what you are." Noble aud pure souls choose congenial mates, and in the fellowship of books we receive only the... | |
| Levina Buoncuore Urbino - 1865 - 300 páginas
...disputing about tastes, Tlie doctor seldom takes medicine, The world was not made in one day, j ell me the company you keep, and I will tell you what you are, Whoever brings, finds the door open for him, Where there is a will, there's a way, Well begun... | |
| Luise Mühlbach - 1867 - 274 páginas
...are all four Germans," said Ostermann, " and consequently are all familiar with the common saying, 'Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you what you are!' I have always kept that in mind since I have been in Russia; and to make this good people forget... | |
| 1869 - 646 páginas
...but all was plain enough now. How keenly Jonas felt the truth of the old saying, which declares : " Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you what you are." The connection of Jonas with the poachers was so clearly proved that the unhappy young man felt... | |
| 1876 - 806 páginas
...practically as high as ever, while his company is courted by troops of flattering friends. Indeed, " Tell me the company you keep and I will tell you what you are " is a maxim that should surely be regarded as exploded. It would seem, at least, that nowadays... | |
| 1879 - 812 páginas
...jesuitically subtle device of the Enemy. It is a perversion and almost a prostitution of the proverb of " Tell me the company you keep and I will tell you what you are ; " and many a profane narrative walks in unquestioned on the first day of the week because it... | |
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