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But, Indeed, The Science Of Logic And The Whole Framework Of Philosophical Thought Men Have Kept Since The Days Of Plato And Aristotle, Has No More Essential Permanence As A Final Expression Of The Human Mind, Than The Scottish Longer Catechism.

-George Herbert

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But, Indeed, The Science

George Herbert

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But, Indeed, The Science Of Logic And The Whole Framework Of Philosophical Thought Men Have Kept Since The Days Of Plato And Aristotle, Has No More Essential Permanence As A Final Expression Of The Human Mind, Than The Scottish Longer Catechism.

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The Eye Will Have His Part.

An Oath That Is Not To Bee Made Is Not To Be Kept.

A Dead Bee Maketh No Hony.

Who Hath A Wolfe For His Mate, Needes A Dog For His Man.

Short Boughs, Long Vintage.

The Filth Under The White Snow, The Sunne Discovers.

Marry A Widdow Before She Leave Mourning.

Count Not Fowre Except You Have Them In A Wallett.

Every One Is Weary, The Poore In Seeking, The Rich In Keeping, The Good In Learning.

No Love Is Foule, Nor Prison Fair.

Justice Pleaseth Few In Their Owne House. [justice Pleases Few In Their Own House.]

Losse Embraceth Shame.

Many Things Are Lost For Want Of Asking.

There Is No Body Will Go To Hell For Company.

Who Goes To Bed, And Doth Not Pray, Maketh Two Nights To Every Day!

Take Heede Of Still Waters, The Quick Passe Away.

A Good Bargaine Is A Pick-purse. [a Good Bargain Is A Pick-purse.]

Teach Me, My God And King In All Things Thee To See And What I Do In Anything To Do It As For Thee

Not A Long Day, But A Good Heart Rids Worke.

The Dark Grave, Which Knows All Secrets, Can Alone Reclaim The Fatal Doubt Once Cast On A Woman's Name.

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

Discreet Women Have Neither Eyes Nor Eares. [discreet Women Have Neither Eyes Nor Ears.]

Hee That Is In A Taverne Thinkes He Is In A Vine-garden.

To A Gratefull Man Give Mony When He Askes.

Ill Natures, The More You Aske Them, The More They Stick.

He That Cannot Forgive Others, Breaks The Bridge Over Which He Himself Must Pass If He Would Ever Reach Heaven; For Everyone Has Need To Be Forgiven.

Waight And Measure Take Away Strife.

The Dog Gnawes The Bone Because He Cannot Swallow It.

Would You Know What Money Is, Go Borrow Some.

Man Proposeth, God Disposeth.

States Have Their Conversions And Periods As Well As Naturall Bodies.

Aske Much To Have A Little.

The Tongue Walkes Where The Teeth Speede Not.

Advise None To Marry Or Go To War.

Princes Are Venison In Heaven.

Shew Me A Lyer, And I'le Shew Thee A Theefe.

He That Feares Death Lives Not.

Take All That Is Given Whether Wealth, Love Or Language, Nothing Comes By Mistake And With Good Digestion All Can Be Turned To Health.

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

Destiny Is Always Dark.

It's A Dangerous Fire Begins In The Bed-straw.

We Must Love, As Looking One Day To Hate.

Who Is The Honest Man? He That Doth Still And Strongly Good Pursue To God, His Neighbor, And Himself Most True: Whom Neither Force Nor Fawning Can Unpin, Or Wrench From Giving All Their Due.

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

A Fair Day In Winter Is The Mother Of A Storme.

An Ill Wound Is Cured, Not An Ill Name.

Every Day Brings His Bread With It.

He That Preacheth Giveth Almes.

The Beast That Goes Alwaies Never Wants Blowes.

The Italians Are Wise Before The Deede, The Germanes In The Deede, The French After The Deede. [the Italians Are Wise Before The Deed, The Germens In The Deed, The French After The Deed.]

The Fault Of The Horse Is Put On The Saddle.

Prosperity Lets Goe The Bridle.

He Plaies Well That Winnes. [he Plays Well That Wins.]

At Dinner My Man Appeares.

Water A Farre Off Quencheth Not Fire.

In Solitude, Be A Multitude To Thyself. Tibullus By All Means Use Sometimes To Be Alone.

Old Camels Carry Young Camels Skins To The Market.

All Are Presumed Good Till They Are Found At Fault.

Hee That Workes After His Owne Manner, His Head Akes Not At The Matter.

When A Man Sleepes, His Head Is In His Stomach.

Life Is Half Spent Before We Know What It Is.

He That Lives Well Sees A Farre Off.

Do Not Grudge To Pick Out Treasures From An Earthen Pot. The Worst Speaks Something Good.

That Which Sufficeth Is Not Little.

Honour Without Profit Is A Ring On The Finger.

A Wicked Mans Gift Hath A Touch Of His Master.

One Slumber Finds Another.

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.

Hee That Stumbles And Falles Not, Mends His Pace.

When Age Is Jocond It Makes Sport For Death. [when Age Is Jocund, It Makes Sport For Death.]

Warre And Physicke Are Governed By The Eye.

Though Punishment Be Slow, Still It Comes.

The Wind In Ones Face Makes One Wise.

Estate In Two Parishes Is Bread In Two Wallets.

The House Shows The Owner.

God, And Parents, And Our Master, Can Never Be Requited.

An Ill Labourer Quarrells With His Tooles.

Astrologie Is True, But The Astrologers Cannot Finde It.

Good Cable, To Enforce And Draw, And Be Thy Law, While Thou Didst Wink And Wouldst Not See.

In Every Art It Is Good To Have A Master. [in Every Art It Is Good To Have A Master.]

To Seek These Things Is Lost Labour; Geese In An Oyle Pot, Fat Hogs Among Jews, And Wine In A Fishing Net.

A Long Tongue Is A Signe Of A Short Hand. [a Long Tongue Is A Sign Of A Short Hand.]

A Handful Of Good Life Is Better Than A Bushel Of Learning.

For The Same Man To Be An Heretick And A Good Subject, Is Incompossible.

Take Heed Of A Young Wench, A Prophetesse, And A Lattin Bred Woman.

I Escaped The Thunder, And Fell Into The Lightning.

When One Is On Horsebacke Hee Knowes All Things.

The Catt Sees Not The Mouse Ever.

Every Ill Man Hath His Ill Day.

Harken To Reason Or Shee Will Bee Heard.

An Ill Deed Cannot Bring Honor.

Conversation Makes One What He Is.

Who Hath No Head, Needes No Heart.

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.

Hee That Is Throwne Would Ever Wrestle.

Some Had Rather Lose Their Friend Then Their Jest.

Health And Sicknesse Surely Are Mens Double Enemies. [health And Sickness Surely Are Men's Double Enemies.]

Sweet Discourse Makes Short Daies And Nights. [sweet Discourse Makes Short Days And Nights.]

We Are Fooles One To Another.

Almes Never Make Poore.

Love Without End, Hath No End, Says The Spaniard: (meaning, If It Were Not Begun On Particular Ends, It Would Last).

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

Between The Businesse Of Life And The Day Of Death, A Space Ought To Be Interposed.

Farre Shooting Never Kild Bird.

He That Hopes Not For Good, Feares Not Evill.

He That Hath One Foot In The Straw, Hath Another In The Spittle.

To A Crafty Man, A Crafty And An Halfe.

He That Plaies His Mony Ought Not To Value It.

The House Is A Fine House, When Good Folks Are Within.

Rise, Heart; Thy Lord Is Risen. Sing His Praise Without Delays, Who Takes Thee By The Hand, That Thou Likewise With Him Mayst Rise: That, As His Death Calcined Thee To Dust, His Life May Make Thee Gold, And, Much More, Just.

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

The Tongue Is Not Steele, Yet It Cuts. [the Tongue Is Not Steel Yet It Cuts.]

The Charges Of Building And Making Of Gardens Are Unknowne.

Money Refused Loose Its Brightness.

He Hath No Leisure Who Useth It Not.

A Good Mother Is Worth Hundreds Of Schoolmasters.

First Day Of School

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

That Is Gold Which Is Worth Gold.

To Speake Of An Vsurer At The Table Marres The Wine.

The Wolfe Knowes, What The Ill Beast Thinkes.

A Poore Beauty Finds More Lovers Then Husbands.

Good Horses Make Short Miles.

Of Him That Speakes Ill, Consider The Life More Then The Word. [of Him That Speaks Ill, Consider The Life More Than The Word.]

Things Well Fitted Abide.

One Foote Is Better Then Two Crutches.

He That Lends, Gives.

Old Men Go To Death, Death Comes To Young Men.

They That Are Booted Are Not Alwaies Ready.

Everyone Puts His Fault On The Times.

To Go Upon The Franciscans Hackney (i.e. On Foot).

Service Without Reward Is Punishment.

None Is Borne Master.

He That Makes His Bed Ill, Lies There.

Goods Are Theirs That Enjoy Them.

A Curst Cow Hath Short Hornes. [a Curst Cow Has Short Horns.]

If Gold Knew What Gold Is, Gold Would Get Gold I Wis.

He That Measures Not Himselfe, Is Measured.

No Profit To Honour, No Honour To Religion.

Beauty Drawes More Then Oxen.

If All Fooles Had Babies, Wee Should Want Fuell.

Better Never Begin Than Never Make An End.

He That Would Be Well, Needs Not Goe From His Owne House. [he That Would Be Well Needs Not Go From His Own House.]

With Customes Wee Live Well, But Lawes Undoe Us.

Of A Pigs Taile You Can Never Make A Good Shaft. [of A Pig's Tail You Can Never Make A Good Shaft.]

One Eye Of The Masters Sees More, Then Ten Of The Servants. [one Eye Of The Master Sees More Than Ten Of The Servants']

Being On Sea Saile, Being On Land Settle. [being On Sea, Sail; Being On Land, Settle.]

Good Words Are Worth Much, And Cost Little.

A Man Of Great Memory Without Learning Hath A Rock And A Spindle And No Staff To Spin.

The Cholerick Man Never Wants Woe.

A Drunkards Purse Is A Bottle.

Chuse Not An House Neere An Lnne (viz. For Noise) Or In A Corner (for Filth).

Evening Words Are Not Like To Morning.

The Divell Never Assailes A Man, Except He Find Him Either Void Of Knowledge, Or Of The Fear Of God.

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

A Jade Eates As Much As A Good Horse.

Heresie Is The School Of Pride.

Avoid,profaneness; Come Not Here: Nothing But Holy, Pure, And Clear, Or That Which Groaneth To Be So, May At His Peril Further Go.

The Germans Wit Is In His Fingers.

The Honey Is Sweet, But The Bee Stings.

If The Mother Had Not Beene In The Oven, Shee Had Never Sought Her Daughter There.

Good Land, Evill Way.

Hee Looseth Nothing, That Looseth Not God.

The Best Of The Sport Is To Doe The Deede, And Say Nothing.

Into A Mouth Shut Flies Flie Not.

Hee Pays Too Deare For Honey That Licks It From Thornes.

You Cannot Know Wine By The Barrell.

The Physitian Owes All To The Patient, But The Patient Owes Nothing To Him But A Little Mony.

Mend Your Clothes And You May Hold Out This Year.

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

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

Let An Ill Man Lie In Thy Straw, And He Looks To Be Thy Heire.

In Conversation, Humor Is Worth More Than Wit And Easiness More Than Knowledge.

The Chicken Is The Country's, But The City Eats It.

Who Hastens A Glutton Choakes Him.

He That Goeth Farre Hath Many Encounters.

A Full Belly Neither Fights Nor Flies Well.

Honour And Profit Lie Not In One Sacke. [honour And Profit Lie Not In One Sack.]

The Morning Sunne Never Lasts A Day.

The Singing Man Keepes His Shop In His Throate.

Foolish Tongues Talke By The Dozen.

It Is Good To Have Some Friends Both In Heaven And Hell.

Spectacles Are Deaths Harquebuze. [spectacles Are Death's Arquebuse.]

In The Husband Wisedome, In The Wife Gentlenesse. [in The Husband Wisdom, In The Wife Gentleness.]

He That Hath A Head Of Waxe Must Not Walke In The Sunne. [he That Hath A Head Of Wax Must Not Walk In The Sun.]

Infants Manners Are Moulded More By The Example Of Parents, Then By Stars At Their Nativities.

Hee Wrongs Not An Old Man That Steales His Supper From Him.

He That Respects Not Is Not Respected.

Danger It Selfe The Best Remedy For Danger.

Jest Not With The Eye Or With Religion.

A Coole Mouth, And Warme Feet, Live Long.

Thinke Of Ease, But Worke On.

Stay A Little And News Will Find You.

Happie Is Hee That Chastens Himselfe.

Though Old And Wise, Yet Still Advise.

If The Old Dog Barke He Gives Counsell. [if The Old Dog Barks, He Gives Counsel.]

The Great Would Have None Great And The Little All Little.

A Broken Altar, Lord, Thy Servant Rears, Made Of A Heart, And Cemented With Tears.

A Litle Wind Kindles; Much Puts Out The Fire.

There Is No Jollitie But Hath A Smack Of Folly. [there Is No Jollity But Hath A Smack Of Folly.]

He That Steals An Egg Will Steal An Ox.

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