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Works & expressions

Works & expressions

1196 public objects
Proverb

Enough is as good as a feast.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

Enough is enough of bread and cheese.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Poetry

Evening on Calais Beach

A sonnet in which the holy quiet of a seaside evening is likened to a nun breathless with adoration, before the speaker calls the listener to hear a mighty Being awake whose eternal motion makes a sound like thunder, and then turns to the child walking beside him to say that her seeming unconcern makes her nature no less divine.

Proverb

Every bean has its black.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

Every man has his hobby.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

Every path has its puddle.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

Every rose has its prickles.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

Everything has a beginning.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

Experience is the mistress of fools.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

Extremes meet.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

Fair and softly goes far in a day.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

Fair fall truth and daylight.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

Fast bind, fast find.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.