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An Ill Deede Cannot Bring Honour.

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An Ill Deede Cannot Bring Honour.

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Hee That Would Bee Well Old, Must Bee Old Betimes.

When God At First Made Man, Having A Glass Of Blessings Standing By, 'let Us,'said He,'pour On Him All We Can: Let The World's Riches, Which Disperse' D Lie, Contract Into A Span'.

Goods Are Theirs That Enjoy Them.

The Bird Loves Her Nest.

Fine Words Dresse Ill Deedes.

There's No Such Conquering Weapon As The Necessity Of Conquering.

Flies Are Busiest About Leane Horses.

In A Long Journey Straw Waighs.

The Fox, When Hee Cannot Reach The Grapes, Saies They Are Not Ripe.

Take Heed Of The Wrath Of A Mighty Man, And The Tumult Of The People.

He That Hath Time And Looks For Better Time, Time Comes That He Repents Himself Of Time.

A Rugged Stone Growes Smooth From Hand To Hand.

Hee That Doth What Hee Will, Doth Not What He Ought.

He That Is Warme, Thinkes All So.

Take Heede Of An Oxe Before, Of An Horse Behind, Of A Monke On All Sides.

Old Men, When They Scorne Young, Make Much Of Death. [old Men, When They Scorn Young, Make Much Of Death.]

A Great Ship Asks Deep Water.

He That Commits A Fault, Thinkes Every One Speakes Of It. [he That Commits A Fault Thinks Everyone Speaks Of It.]

Of A Little Thing A Little Displeaseth.

Lie Not, Neither To Thyself, Nor Man, Nor God. Let Mouth And Heart Be One; Beat And Speak Together, And Make Both Felt In Action. It Is For Cowards To Lie.

Let Not Him That Feares Feathers Come Among Wild-foule.

Living Well Is The Best Revenge.

How Wide Is All This Long Pretense! There Is In Love A Sweetness Ready Penned, Copy Out Only That, And Save Expense.

Man Is All Symmetry, Full Of Proportions, One Limb To Another.

One Foole Makes A Hundred.

Take Heed Of A Person Marked, And A Widdow Thrice Married. [take Heed Of A Person Marked, And A Widow Thrice Married.]

To A Good Spender God Is The Treasurer.

In The Kingdome Of Blind Men The One Ey'd Is King. [in The Kingdom Of Blind Men The One Eyed Is King.]

Hee Lookes Not Well To Himselfe That Lookes Not Ever.

Lord, With What Care Hast Thou Begirt Us Round! Parents First Season Us; Then Schoolmasters Deliver Us To Laws; They Send Us Bound To Rules Of Reason, Holy Messengers, Pulpits And Sundays, Sorrow Dogging Sin, Afflictions Sorted, Anguish Of All Sizes, Fine Nets And Stratagems To Catch Us In, Bibles Laid Open, Millions Of Surprises, Blessings Beforehand, Ties Of Gratefulness, The Sound Of Glory Ringing In Our Ears: Without, Our Shame; Within, Our Consciences; Angels And Grace, Eternal Hopes And Fears. Yet All These Fences And Their Whole Array One Cunning Bosom-sin Blows Quite Away.

An Examin'd Enterprize Goes On Boldly.

Summe Up At Night What Thou Hast Done By Day; And In The Morning What Thou Hast To Do. Dresse And Undresse Thy Soul; Mark The Decay And Growth Of It; If, With Thy Watch, That Too Be Down Then Winde Up Both; Since We Shall Be Most Surely Judg'd, Make Thy Accounts Agree.

If The Braine Sowes Not Corne, It Plants Thistles.

Paines To Get, Care To Keep, Feare To Lose.

Noble Houskeepers Neede No Dores.

As The Yeere Is, Your Pot Must Seeth.

The Ballance Distinguisheth Not Betweene Gold And Lead.

There Is Great Force Hidden In A Sweet Command.

He Who Cannot Forgive Breaks The Bridge Over Which He Himself Must Pass.

A Flatterers Throat Is An Open Sepulcher.

Keep Not Ill Men Company, Lest You Increase The Number.

The House Shows The Owner.

The First Blow Is As Much As Two.

He Who Has The Pepper May Season As He Lists.

The Catt Sees Not The Mouse Ever.

A Kinsman, A Friend, Or Whom You Intreate, Take Not To Serve You, If You Will Be Served Neately.

Great Paines Quickly Find Ease.

Every Thing New Is Fine.

A Good Prayer Is Master Of Anothers Purse.

A Feather In Hand Is Better Then A Bird In The Ayre.

He That Makes A Good War Makes A Good Peace.

Though A Lie Be Well Drest, It Is Ever Overcome. [though A Lie Be Well Dressed, It Is Ever Overcome.]

The Greatest Step Is That Out Of Doores. [the Greatest Step Is That Out Of Doors.]

Little Journeys And Good Cost Bring Safe Home.

Hee That Blowes In The Dust Fills His Eyes With It.

Chuse None For Thy Servant Who Have Served Thy Betters.

Where There Is No Honour, There Is No Griefe.

A Coole Mouth, And Warme Feet, Live Long.

A Good Mother Is Worth Hundreds Of Schoolmasters.

First Day Of School

There Is No Man, Though Never So Little, But Sometimes He Can Hurt.

An Ill Deede Cannot Bring Honour.

Good Horses Make Short Miles.

Although It Raine, Throw Not Away Thy Watering Pot.

An Idle Youth, A Needy Age.

A Sad, Wise Valor Is The Brave Complexion.

Calmness Is Great Advantage; He That Lets Another Chafe, May Warm Him At His Fire.

Help = H(umor), E-go, Edging God Out, L-istening, P-urpose

To Deceive Ones Selfe Is Very Easie.

He That Is His Owne Counsellor Knowes Nothing Sure But What Hee Hath Laid Out.

Hee That Lies Long A Bed, His Estate Feeles It.

To Bee Beloved Is Above All Bargaines.

The Wearer Knowes, Where The Shoe Wrings.

Building And Marrying Of Children Are Great Wasters.

Least At Thine Own Things Laugh.

The Tongue Walkes Where The Teeth Speede Not.

A Gentle Heart Is Tied With An Easy Thread.

Many, Affecting Wit Beyond Their Power, Have Got To Be A Dear Fool For An Hour.

Fear Keepes And Looks To The Vineyard, And Not The Owner.

Sorrow Was All My Soul; I Scarce Believed, Till Grief Did Tell Me Roundly, That I Lived.

He That Is Drunken * * * Is Outlawed By Himself; All Kind Of Ill Did With His Liquor Slide Into His Veins.

Buy At A Faire, But Sell At Home. [buy At A Fair, But Sell At Home.]

Night Is The Mother Of Counsels.

Express Yourself

Hee That Hath A Fox For His Mate, Hath Neede Of A Net At His Girdle.

He That Will Learn To Pray, Let Him Go To Sea.

In Sports And Journeys Men Are Knowne. [in Sports And Journeys Men Are Known.]

Destiny Is Always Dark.

Beauty Drawes More Then Oxen.

Whose House Is Of Glass, Must Not Throw Stones At Another.

The More Women Looke In Their Glasse, The Lesse They Looke To Their House. [the More Women Look In Their Glass, The Less They Look To Their House.]

A Cherefull Looke Makes A Dish A Feast.

The Science Of The Modern School ... Is In Effect ... The Acquisition Of Imperfectly Analyzed Misstatements About Entrails, Elements, And Electricity.

All Keyes Hang Not On One Girdle.

Punishment Is Lame, But It Comes.

Bee Not A Baker, If Your Head Be Of Butter.

He That Serves, Must Serve.

It's Absurd To Warme One In His Armour.

It's An Ill Aire Where Wee Gaine Nothing.

Bees Work For Man, And Yet They Never Bruise Their Master's Flower, But Leave It Having Done, As Fair As Ever And As Fit To Use; So Both The Flower Doth Stay And Honey Run.

Many Things Are Lost For Want Of Asking.

The Scalded Head Feares Cold Water.

A Child Correct Behind And Not Before.

If Thou Do Ill, The Joy Fades, Not The Pains. If Well, The Pain Doth Fade, The Joy Remains.

A Verse May Find Him, Who A Sermon Flies, And Turn Delight Into A Sacrifice.

Only A Sweet And Virtuous Soul, Like Seasoned Timber, Never Gives.

I Know The Ways Of Pleasure, The Sweet Strains, The Lullings And The Relishes Of It.

Whatsoever Was The Father Of A Disease, An Ill Diet Was The Mother.

A Master Of Straw Eates A Servant Of Steele.

Take The Gentle Path.

The Hole Calls The Thiefe. [the Hole Calls The Thief.]

When My House Burnes, It's Not Good Playing At Chesse.

Wealth Is Like Rheume, It Falles On The Weakest Parts.

A Journying Woman Speakes Much Of All, And All Of Her.

Say No Ill Of The Yeere, Till It Be Past. [say No Ill Of The Year Till It Be Past.]

The Resolved Mind Hath No Cares.

All Are Presumed Good Till They Are Found At Fault.

Good & Quickly Seldome Meete.

One Faire Day In Winter Makes Not Birds Merrie.

The Lame Goes As Farre As Your Staggerer. [the Lame Goes As Far As Your Staggerer.]

A Wise Man Needes Not Blush For Changing His Purpose.

He That Hath Love In His Brest, Hath Spurres In His Sides.

None Is So Wise, But The Foole Overtakes Him.

It's A Wicked Thing To Make A Dearth Ones Garner.

When The Foxe Preacheth, Beware Geese.

Farre Shooting Never Kild Bird.

Let Thy Mind's Sweetness Have Its Operation Upon Thy Body, Clothes, And Habitation.

Knowledge Is No Burden.

Could Have Recovered Greenness?

On Painting And Fighting Looke Aloofe. [on Painting And Fighting Look Aloof.]

An Ill Wound Is Cured, Not An Ill Name.

One Foote Is Better Then Two Crutches.

Hee That Should Have What Hee Hath Not, Should Doe What He Doth Not.

The Best Smell Is Bread; The Best Saver, Salt; The Best Love, That Of Children.

Tis Easier To Build Two Chimneys, Then To Maintaine One.

Spies Are The Ears And Eyes Of Princes.

Make Hast To An Ill Way That You May Get Out Of It.

Who Eates The Kings Goose Uoydes The Feathers An Hundred Years After. [who Eats The King's Goose Voids The Feathers A Hundred Years After.]

Hee That Stumbles And Falles Not, Mends His Pace.

To A Crazy Ship, All Winds Are Contrary.

Serve A Noble Disposition, Though Poore, The Time Comes That Hee Will Repay Thee.

Humble Hearts Have Humble Desires.

With Customes Wee Live Well, But Lawes Undoe Us.

He That Is Surprized With The First Frost Feeles It All The Winter After.

A Crooked Log Makes A Strait Fire.

Every One Thinkes His Sacke Heaviest.

Hunger Makes Dinners, Pastime Suppers.

The Faulty Stands On His Guard.

He That Trusts Much Obliges Much, Says The Spaniard.

The Drunkard Forfeits Man And Doth Divest All Wordly Right, Save What He Hath By Beast.

France Is A Meddow That Cuts Thrice A Yeere.

He That Looseth Is Marchant As Well As He That Gaines.

Hee That Keepes His Owne Makes Warre.

Storms Make Oaks Take Deeper Root.

Who Spits Against Heaven, It Falls In His Face.

Religion, Credit, And The Eye Are Not To Be Touched.

It's No Sure Rule To Fish With A Cros-bow.

That Is Not Good Language Which All Understand Not.

Unsound Minds Like Unsound Bodies, If You Feed, You Poyson. [unsound Minds, Like Unsound Bodies, If You Feed, You Poison.]

The Tree That Growes Slowly, Keepes It Selfe For Another.

Wee Leave More To Do When Wee Dye, Then Wee Have Done.

A Good Pay-master Starts Not At Assurances.

Man Proposeth, God Disposeth.

Was Ever Grief Like Mine?

Hee That Sendes A Foole, Means To Follow Him.

In The World Who Knowes Not To Swimme, Goes To The Bottome. [in The World, Who Knows Not To Swim Goes To The Bottom.]

He Warmes Too Neere That Burnes.

Prettiness Dies First.

Take Heed Of Mad Folks In A Narrow Place.

Silke Doth Quench The Fire In The Kitchin.

The Thought Hath Good Leggs, And The Quill A Good Tongue.

All Flesh Is Not Venison.

The Child Saies Nothing, But What It Heard By The Fire.

What One Day Gives Us, Another Takes Away From Us. [what One Day Gives, Another Takes Away From Us.]

Ready Mony Is A Ready Medicine.

Only A Sweet And Virtuous Soul, Like Season'd Timbered, Never Gives; But Though The Whole World Turn To Coal, Then Chiefly Lives.

Great Business Turns On A Little Pin.

Hee That Strikes With His Tongue, Must Ward With His Head.

When All Men Have What Belongs To Them, It Cannot Bee Much. [when All Men Have What Belongs To Them, It Cannot Be Much.]

The Back-doore Robs The House.

The Lion Is Not So Fierce As They Paint Him.

The Fatt Man Knoweth Not, What The Leane Thinketh.

He Pares His Apple That Will Cleanly Feed.

Drink Not The Third Glass, Which Thou Canst Not Tame, When Once It Is Within Thee.

The Slothful Is The Servant Of The Counters.

A Dwarf On A Giant's Shoulder, Sees Further Of The Two.

Conversation Makes One What He Is.

Without Businesse Debauchery.

Who Hath No Hast In His Businesse, Mountaines To Him Seeme Valleys.

Reason Lies Betweene The Spurre And The Bridle. [reason Lies Between The Spur And The Bridle.]

The Tooth-ach Is More Ease Then To Deale With Ill People.

He That Sings On Friday, Will Weepe On Sunday.

Deceive Not Thy Physician, Confessor, Nor Lawyer.

Hee That Falles Into The Durt, The Longer He Stayes There, The Fowler He Is.

The Eye And Religion Can Beare No Jesting.

Prosperity Lets Goe The Bridle.

One Hour's Sleep Before Midnight Is Worth Three After.

When You Enter Into A House, Leave The Anger Ever At The Doore.

All Beasts Of Prey Are Strong Or Treacherous.

If Fooles Should Not Foole It, They Shall Lose Their Season.

Love Bade Me Welcome, But My Soul Drew Back.

It's An Ill Councell That Hath No Escape.

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