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To Be Too Busie Gets Contempt.

Reason And Speech We Onely Bring.

All Is Well With Him, Who Is Beloved Of His Neighbours.

By No Means Run In Debt: Take Thine Own Measure, Who Cannot Live On Twenty Pound A Year, Cannot On Forty.

Perversnes Makes One Squint Ey'd.

To A Boiling Pot Flies Come Not.

Weening Is Not Measure.

Of The Smells, Bread; Of The Tastes, Salt.

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

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

No Profit To Honour, No Honour To Religion.

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

Give Loosers Leave To Talke.

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

Never Was Strumpet Faire.

Too Much Taking Heede Is Losse. [too Much Taking Heed Is Loss.]

The Ill That Comes Out Of Our Mouth Falles Into Our Bosome.

In Solitude, Be A Multitude To Thyself.

Show Me A Liar, And I'll Show You A Thief.

Could Have Recovered Greenness?

Music Helps Not The Toothache.

To Play At Chesse When The House Is On Fire.

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

Learn Weeping, And Thou Shalt Laugh Gaining.

Hee That Is In A Towne In May Loseth His Spring.

If Great Men Would Have Care Of Little Ones, Both Would Last Long.

Our Owne Actions Are Our Security, Not Others Judgements.

When A Lackey Comes To Hells Doore, The Devills Locke The Gates.

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

Building Is A Sweet Impoverishing.

He That Hath No Hony In His Pot, Let Him Have It In His Mouth.

Pull Downe Your Hatt On The Winds Side.

None Saies His Garner Is Full.

A Blustering Night, A Faire Day. [a Blustering Night, A Fair Day.]

When All Sinnes Grow Old, Coveteousnesse Is Young.

Greene Wood Makes A Hott Fire.

A Pittifull Mother Makes A Scald Head.

Feare, The Bedle Of The Law.

Play With A Foole At Home, And He Will Play With You In The Market.

Gaming, Women, And Wine, While They Laugh They Make Men Pine.

A Flatterers Throat Is An Open Sepulcher.

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

It's Better To Be Head Of A Lyzard, Then The Tayle Of A Lyon.

Ill Ware Is Never Cheape. [ill Ware Is Never Cheap.]

He That Trusts Much Obliges Much, Says The Spaniard.

Be Calm In Arguing; For Fierceness Makes Error A Fault, And Truth Discourtesy.

The Market Is The Best Garden.

It's A Poore Stake That Cannot Stand One Yeare In The Ground.

If You Loose Your Time, You Cannot Get Mony Nor Gaine.

A Caske And An Ill Custome Must Be Broken.

Let None Say, I Will Not Drinke Water.

Wine That Cost Nothing Is Digested Before It Be Drunke.

An Old Friend Is A New House.

Science Stands, A Too Competant Servant, Behind Her Wrangling Underbred Masters, Holding Out Resources, Devices, And Remedies They Are Too Stupid To Use. ... And On Its Material Side, A Modern Utopia Must Needs Present These Gifts As Taken.

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

None Is Offended But By Himselfe.

The Frier Preached Against Stealing, And Had A Goose In His Sleeve.

A Civil Guest Will No More Talk All, Than Eat All The Feast.

Without Businesse Debauchery.

Dry Bread At Home Is Better Then Rost Meate Abroad.

Evening Words Are Not Like To Morning.

Set Good Against Evill. [set Good Against Evil.]

Good Against Evil

Every One Is Witty For His Owne Purpose.

The Jewes Spend At Easter, The Moors At Marriages, The Christians In Sutes.

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

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

Life Without A Friend Is Death Without A Witnesse. [life Without A Friend Is Death Without A Witness.]

Spanish Proverb

Good Newes May Bee Told At Any Time, But Ill In The Morning.

The Ballance Distinguisheth Not Betweene Gold And Lead.

Death Keeps No Calendar.

Bibles Laid Open, Millions Of Surprises.

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

Some Make A Conscience Of Spitting In The Church, Yet Robbe The Altar.

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

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.

The Mill Gets By Going.

A Diligent Scholer, And The Master's Paid. [a Diligent Scholar, And The Master's Paid.]

Vertue Flies From The Heart Of A Mercenary Man.

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

Gamsters And Race-horses Never Last Long.

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

Hast Comes Not Alone.

Hell Is Full Of Good Meanings And Wishings.

Fooles Bite One Another, But Wise-men Agree Together.

The Philosophy Of Princes Is To Dive Into The Secrets Of Men, Leaving The Secrets Of Nature To Those That Have Spare Time.

Beauty Draws More Than Oxen.

He That Gives All Before Hee Dies Provides To Suffer.

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

He That Riseth Betimes Hath Some Thing In His Head.

Sweet Rose, Whose Hue, Angry And Brave, Bids The Rash Gazer Wipe His Eye, Thy Root Is Even In The Grave, And Thou Must Die.

One Paire Of Eares Drawes Dry An Hundred Tongues.

Hee That Sendes A Foole, Means To Follow Him.

Help Thyself, And God Will Help Thee.

Citties Are Taken By The Eares.

One Stroke Fells Not An Oke.

He That's Long A Giving, Knowes Not How To Give.

Good And Quickly Seldom Meet.

The Wolf Must Die In His Own Skin.

I Had Rather Aske Of My Sire Browne Bread, Then Borrow Of My Neighbour White.

One Father Is Enough To Govern One Hundred Sons, But Not A Hundred Sons One Father.

The Thread Breakes, Where It Is Weakest.

All Are Presumed Good Till They Are Found At Fault.

The Scalded Head Feares Cold Water.

Religion A Stalking Horse To Shoot Other Foul.

Be What Thou Wouldst Seeme To Be.

The Offender Never Pardons.

Although It Raine, Throw Not Away Thy Watering Pot.

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

There Are More Men Threatned Then Stricken. [there Are More Men Threatened Than Stricken.]

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

The Fish Adores The Bait.

Such A Saint, Such An Offering.

An Ill Labourer Quarrells With His Tooles.

Two Sparrows On One Ear Of Corn Make An Ill Agreement.

To A Child All Weather Is Cold.

Short Boughs, Long Vintage.

Thou That Hast Given So Much To Me Give Me One Thing More, A Grateful Heart: Not Thankful When It Pleaseth Me, As If Thy Blessings Had Spare Days, But Such A Heart Whose Pulse May Be Thy Praise.

Knowledge Is No Burden.

The Fault Of The Horse Is Put On The Saddle.

The First Service A Child Doth His Father Is To Make Him Foolish.

The Corne Hides It Self In The Snow, As An Old Man In Furrs.

He That Lives Most Dies Most.

He That Sings On Friday, Will Weepe On Sunday.

Leave Jesting Whiles It Pleaseth, Lest It Turne To Earnest.

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

Truth And Oyle Are Ever Above. [truth And Oil Are Ever Above.]

Were There No Hearers, There Would Be No Backbiters.

Hee Goes Not Out Of His Way, That Goes To A Good Inne.

From A Chollerick Man Withdraw A Little; From Him That Saies Nothing, For Ever. [from A Choleric Man Withdraw A Little; From Him That Says Nothing, For Ever.]

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.

The Devil Divides The World Between Atheism And Superstition.

No Day So Clear But Hath Dark Clouds.

Better Be A Foole Then A Knave. [better Be A Fool Than A Knave.]

All Things Require Skill But An Appetite.

Feares Are Divided In The Midst.

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

He That Staies Does The Businesse.

Vertue Now Is In Herbs And Stones And Words Onely.

Laugh Not Too Much; The Witty Man Laughs Least: For Wit Is News Only To Ignorance. Lesse At Thine Own Things Laugh; Lest In The Jest Thy Person Share, And The Conceit Advance.

Patience, Time And Money Accommodate All Things.

Do Well And Right And Let The World Sink.

Giving Much To The Poore, Doth Inrich A Mans Store. [giving Much To The Poor Doth Increase A Man's Store.]

Helpe Thy Selfe, And God Will Helpe Thee.

God Is At The End, When We Thinke He Is Furthest Off It.

If We Can Possibly Avoid Wrecking This Little Planet Of Ours, We Will, But-there Must Be Risks! There Must Be. In Experimental Work There Always Are!

Hee That Would Be A Gentleman, Let Him Goe To An Assault.

That Is Gold Which Is Worth Gold.

Good Service Is A Great Inchantment.

An Ill Deed Cannot Bring Honor.

When Once Thy Foot Enters The Church, Be Bare. God Is More There Than Thou: For Thou Art There Only By His Permission. Then Beware, That Leads From Earth To Heaven.

A Poore Beauty Finds More Lovers Then Husbands.

He That Deales In The World Needes Foure Seeves.

The Slothful Is The Servant Of The Counters.

Though You Rise Early, Yet The Day Comes At His Time, And Not Till Then.

To Review Ones Store Is To Mow Twice.

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

God Sees Hearts As We See Faces.

A Litle Wind Kindles; Much Puts Out The Fire.

The House Shows The Owner.

Grief Melts Away Like Snow In May, As If There Were No Such Cold Thing.

Whether You Boyle Snow Or Pound It, You Can Have But Water Of It.

God Comes To See Without A Bell.

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

Speak Not Of My Debts Unless You Mean To Pay Them.

A Holy Habit Clenseth Not A Foule Soule.

Money Refused Loose Its Brightness.

Who Likes Not The Drinke, God Deprives Him Of Bread.

A Servant With This Clause Makes Drudgery Divine; Who Sweeps A Room As Forthy Laws Makes It And Th'action Fine.

A Rugged Stone Growes Smooth From Hand To Hand.

Quick Believers Need Broad Shoulders.

Hee That Will Deceive The Fox, Must Rise Betimes.

None Is A Fool Always, Everyone Sometimes.

You Cannot Make A Windmill Go With A Pair Of Bellows.

Hunger Makes Dinners, Pastime Suppers.

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

When The Tree Is Fallen, All Goe With Their Hatchet. [when The Tree Is Fallen, All Go With Their Hatchet.]

Hee That Knowes What May Bee Gained In A Day Never Steales.

Who Hath None To Still Him, May Weepe Out His Eyes. [who Hath None To Still Him, May Weep Out His Eyes.]

The Worst Of Law Is, That One Suit Breedes Twenty. [the Worst Of Law Is That One Suit Breeds Twenty.]

Chuse None For Thy Servant Who Have Served Thy Betters.

A Child Correct Behind And Not Before.

A Piece Of A Churchyard Fits Everybody.

That Is Not Good Language Which All Understand Not.

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

In Time Comes He Whom God Sends.

The Body Is More Drest Then The Soule.

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

Who Would Doe Ill Ne're Wants Occasion.

A Wolfe Will Never Make War Against Another Wolfe.

Lawyers Houses Are Built On The Heads Of Fooles.

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

Astrologie Is True, But The Astrologers Cannot Finde It.

Good Words Are Worth Much, And Cost Little.

Where There Is Peace, God Is.

He Hath Great Neede Of A Foole, That Plaies The Foole Himselfe.

Praise The Sea, But Keepe On Land.

If A Donkey Bray At You, Don't Bray At Him.

Many Things Are Lost For Want Of Asking.

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

Frenzy, Heresie, And Jealovsie, Seldome Cured.

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