The Good Book_ A Secular Bible - A. C. Grayling [217]
5. Good that comes too late is no good.
6. Few things are good for nothing at all.
7. Good and evil can be close neighbours.
8. Do not say that none are good.
9. Be called good rather than fortunate.
10. The good make others good.
11. What is good is never plentiful.
12. If you put good in, you can take good out.
Chapter 79: Gratitude
1. Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
2. Praise the bridge that carried you over.
3. Mere words are empty thanks.
4. Most people’s gratitude is but the hope of receiving more.
5. Gratitude soon grows old and dies.
Chapter 80: Grief
1. Grief makes one hour ten.
2. Grief told brings a little peace.
3. Grief instructs the wise.
4. New grief awakens the old.
5. The cure for grief is action.
6. Little griefs make us tender, great griefs make us hard.
7. Of all ills common to humankind, grief is greatest.
8. They who conceal grief find no remedy for it.
9. Light griefs can speak; great griefs are dumb.
10. There is no grief that time does not lessen.
11. The crown of sorrows is remembrance of happier times.
12. When sorrow sleeps, do not wake it.
13. The longest sorrow at last finds relief.
14. Nothing comes too soon but grief.
Chapter 81: Habit
1. People’s natures are alike, it is their habits that divide them.
2. Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
3. Habit is ten times nature.
4. It is hard to break a bad custom.
5. It is easier to prevent bad habits than reform them.
6. Man is an animal of habit.
7. Unresisted habits become necessities.
8. Much injustice is caused by habit.
Chapter 82: Haste
1. Fools haste to no speed.
2. A hasty person never lacks trouble.
3. Haste trips on its own heels.
4. They hasten well who have patience.
5. The hasty fish lives in an empty pond.
6. They tire quickly who hasten too much.
7. Be patient, to finish more quickly.
8. The hasty arrive as late as the slow.
9. Great haste makes error.
10. Haste is the parent of failure.
11. Haste and prudence never meet.
12. Who pours in haste spills most to waste.
Chapter 83: Hate
1. People never understand those they hate.
2. Hate never ages.
3. Hate and mistrust are born of blindness.
4. Hatred is self-punishment.
5. Hatred has the sharpest eyes.
6. A true man hates no one.
7. Hatred sinks us below those we hate.
8. Hatred renewed is fiercer than first hatred.
9. Hatred proclaimed loses its chance of revenge.
10. We hate those we have injured.
11. Whom people fear they hate, whom they hate they wish dead.
Chapter 84: Health
1. A cool head and warm feet live long.
2. Whoever is healthy is young.
3. Who lives by medicine lives miserably.
4. Better to lose health like a spendthrift than waste it like a miser.
5. They destroy their health who labour to protect it.
6. Better lack a supper than have a hundred doctors.
7. Health comes when the feet do more than the mouth.
Chapter 85: Honesty
1. Honest people do not make themselves dogs for the sake of a bone.
2. An honest person is a citizen of the world.
3. Honest people fear neither light nor dark.
4. Clean hands are better than full ones.
5. It is never too late to be honest.
6. Honesty is rarely the way to wealth.
Chapter 86: Hope
1. Hope is the pauper’s income.
2. Hope is a good breakfast but a poor supper.
3. Who lives by hope must die of hunger.
4. Hope is a bad guide, but good company on the way.
5. Without hope the heart must break.
6. Never quit certainty for hope.
7. None so well but hopes to be better.
8. If hope breaks, patience must hold.
9. Hope makes the fool rich.
10. To cease to hope is to cease to fear.
11. Great hopes make great men.
Chapter 87: Idleness
1. All things are easy to industry, difficult to sloth.
2. An idle head is a box for the wind.
3. An idle youth, a needy age.
4. Poison comes from standing water.
5. Idle dogs worry sheep.
6. Idle people have least leisure.
7. Idle people have most labour.
8. Idleness is the mother of poverty and the nurse of vice.
9. Idleness destroys.
10. Idleness travels so slowly that poverty