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A Collection Of Chinese Proverbs And Apothegms,
Spaniards say , Quien canta sits males expanta ; i . e . He who sings , frights away his misfortunes , or eases and diverts them . ]' He who doth not love tea , covets wine . Heaven and hell are seated in the heart . [ Milton ' s observation is parallel : ' The mind is its own place , and in itself ' Can make a heaven of hell , a hell of heaven . * Paradise Lost , b . i . v . 254 .. ]
Honour the dead as you woutd honour them if they were alive . How can any one be faultless , unless he were a Tan or a Shun ? [ These were two ancient Chinese Emperors , raised by merit only to the throne : Yau being a petty regulo , and Shun a poor labourer . ] I shall be as the bird that carries a golden ring to the person who set it at liberty . [ This is illustrated in a Chinese edict thus : ' You have , doubtless , heard the history of Yam-pao : he found in his way
a bird , who drew after it , with great difficulty , a cord tied to its leg . Yam-pao , moved with compassion , freed it from its incumbrance , and set it at liberty . He was quickly rewarded for this service : the bird soon after returned , holding in its beak a ring of gold , which she put into the hand of her deliverer . History relates , that from that time the family of Yam-pao remarkably flourished , and afterwards gave many prime ministers to the state . It is thus that even slight services bring down great rewards from heaven . ] If you would know how a son will turn out , look Upon the father
or the tutor . If you have no experience in an affair yourself , follow those that have succeeded in it . If the water be even ten yin deep , one may distinguish , from the surface , whether the bottom be iron or gold . [ That is , however the mind and its sentiments may be covered with dissimulation , it will be seen through , if it be remarkably good or bad . A yin is 80 feet . ]]
In China there is nothing thrown away . [ Chung-que-vu-y-vo . — China is so prodigiously crowded with inhabitants , that there are no shifts , to which the poor have not recourse for a livelihood . As there is hardly a spot of ground that lies untilled in all the empire , so there is hardly a man , woman , or child , though never so disabled , but what gets a maintenance . They will make a profit of things which to us seem quite useless . Many families subsist by picking up in the street
little rags , the teatners 01 fowls , bones or dogs , bits ot paper , xc which they wash and sell again . In short , a Chinese will dig a whole day together up to his knees in water , and in the evening will think himself well paid in a little boiled rice , pot-herbs , and some tea . Du Halde , vol . i . 277 . 3 In China are more tutors than scholars , and more physicians than patients . [ A proverbial exaggeration of the numbers that addict
themselves to literature and medicine . The great honours that attend the former , invite vast multitudes to pursue it ; a great part of whom being rejected at the examinations , have no other means of support but in . teaching others , }
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A Collection Of Chinese Proverbs And Apothegms,
Spaniards say , Quien canta sits males expanta ; i . e . He who sings , frights away his misfortunes , or eases and diverts them . ]' He who doth not love tea , covets wine . Heaven and hell are seated in the heart . [ Milton ' s observation is parallel : ' The mind is its own place , and in itself ' Can make a heaven of hell , a hell of heaven . * Paradise Lost , b . i . v . 254 .. ]
Honour the dead as you woutd honour them if they were alive . How can any one be faultless , unless he were a Tan or a Shun ? [ These were two ancient Chinese Emperors , raised by merit only to the throne : Yau being a petty regulo , and Shun a poor labourer . ] I shall be as the bird that carries a golden ring to the person who set it at liberty . [ This is illustrated in a Chinese edict thus : ' You have , doubtless , heard the history of Yam-pao : he found in his way
a bird , who drew after it , with great difficulty , a cord tied to its leg . Yam-pao , moved with compassion , freed it from its incumbrance , and set it at liberty . He was quickly rewarded for this service : the bird soon after returned , holding in its beak a ring of gold , which she put into the hand of her deliverer . History relates , that from that time the family of Yam-pao remarkably flourished , and afterwards gave many prime ministers to the state . It is thus that even slight services bring down great rewards from heaven . ] If you would know how a son will turn out , look Upon the father
or the tutor . If you have no experience in an affair yourself , follow those that have succeeded in it . If the water be even ten yin deep , one may distinguish , from the surface , whether the bottom be iron or gold . [ That is , however the mind and its sentiments may be covered with dissimulation , it will be seen through , if it be remarkably good or bad . A yin is 80 feet . ]]
In China there is nothing thrown away . [ Chung-que-vu-y-vo . — China is so prodigiously crowded with inhabitants , that there are no shifts , to which the poor have not recourse for a livelihood . As there is hardly a spot of ground that lies untilled in all the empire , so there is hardly a man , woman , or child , though never so disabled , but what gets a maintenance . They will make a profit of things which to us seem quite useless . Many families subsist by picking up in the street
little rags , the teatners 01 fowls , bones or dogs , bits ot paper , xc which they wash and sell again . In short , a Chinese will dig a whole day together up to his knees in water , and in the evening will think himself well paid in a little boiled rice , pot-herbs , and some tea . Du Halde , vol . i . 277 . 3 In China are more tutors than scholars , and more physicians than patients . [ A proverbial exaggeration of the numbers that addict
themselves to literature and medicine . The great honours that attend the former , invite vast multitudes to pursue it ; a great part of whom being rejected at the examinations , have no other means of support but in . teaching others , }