Every Body’s Book of Proverbs and QuotationsEvery Body’s Book of Proverbs and Quotations
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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
4. Двумя вещами человек никогда не должен огорчаться: тем, чему он может помочь, и тем, чему не может помочь.
4. Over two things a man should never grieve: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
“Every Body’s Book of Proverbs and Quotations”.
From Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs, Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, compiled by Thomas F… · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changed“Two things a man should never be angry at” becomes “Over two things a man should never grieve”: the proverb keeps its form, and anger becomes grief.
“Every Body’s Book of Proverbs and Quotations”’s own words5335 Two things a man should never be angry at, what he can help, and what he cannot help …
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs, Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, compiled by Thomas Fuller, M.D. (1732), no. 5335; the London edition of 1817.
An English proverb, the 5335th of Fuller's collection: 'Two things a man should never be angry at, what he can help, and what he cannot help.' Tolstoy keeps its form and changes its verb: 'be angry at' becomes 'be grieved by' (огорчаться). Tolstoy's signature names the anthology he read, which the Jubilee list of sources gives as 'Everybody's Book of Proverbs and Quotations, London 1890' (compiled by W. H. Howe, as a sale catalogue of 1916 on archive.org lists it, 'Howe (W. H.). Everybody's Book of Proverbs'); no copy of it was found online. Every printing among the first 25 of archive.org's 248 full-text hits for the proverb (1846 to the present) reads 'be angry at', so the change is probably Tolstoy's. Fuller compiled proverbs current in his day, and the saying is not his own, so the signature stands. No printable, for the changed verb.