The way is an ill neighbor. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Give not wantonly a dishonorable nickname to thy neighbor. [ Rabbi Eliazar ]
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [ Horace ]
Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value. [ Francis Quarles ]
When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself. [ Zimmermann ]
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself. [ Bishop Hall ]
Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace. [ Crashaw ]
In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor. [ Landor ]
Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbor doth me more harm than either of them both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A ring is a circle of vanity, worn on the finger to show off your wealth, and excite the envy of your neighbor. [ E. P. Day ]
If you want your neighbor to know what the Christ spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done for you. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. [ Brooke ]
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty. [ Savonarola ]
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its bead proudly above its neighbor plants - forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt. [ Bovee ]
His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]
The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. [ Willmott ]