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Call Me Not An Olive, Till Thou See Me Gathered.

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To Seek In A Sheep Five Feet When There Is But Four.

By All Means Use Sometimes To Be Alone. Salute Thyself: See What Thy Soul Doth Wear. Dare To Look In Thy Chest; For 'tis Thine Own: And Tumble Up And Down What Thou Findst There. Who Cannot Rest Till He Good Fellows Find, He Breaks Up House, Turns Out Of Doors His Mind.

By Suppers More Have Been Killed Than Galen Ever Cured

The First And Last Frosts Are The Worst.

Were There No Fooles, Badd Ware Would Not Passe.

Who Hath No Head, Needes No Heart.

In Good Yeares Corne Is Hay, In Ill Yeares Straw Is Corne.

A Small Heart Hath Small Desires.

Pull Downe Your Hatt On The Winds Side.

True Beauty Dwells On High: Ours Is A Flame But Borrowed Thence To Light Us Thither. Beauty And Beauteous Words Should Go Together.

A Man Is Known To Be Mortal By Two Things, Sleep And Lust.

He That Hath Children, All His Morsels Are Not His Owne.

Dare To Be True. Nothing Can Need A Lie: A Fault Which Needs It Most, Grows Two Thereby.

He That Hath Little Is The Lesse Durtie.

Folly Growes Without Watering.

One Foole Makes A Hundred.

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

Feare Keepes The Garden Better Then The Gardiner.

They That Know One Another Salute A Farre Off.

Hee That Bewailes Himselfe Hath The Cure In His Hands.

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

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

God Sends A Curst Cow Short Horns.

One Father Is More Than A Hundred Schoolmasters.

No Church-yard Is So Handsom, That A Man Would Desire Straight To Bee Buried There. [no Churchyard Is So Handsome That A Man Would Desire Straight To Be Buried There.]

He That Serves, Must Serve.

Give Me Simplicity, That I May Live, So Live And Like, That I May Know Thy Ways, Know Them And Practise Them: Then Shall I Give For This Poor Wreath, Give Thee A Crown Of Praise.

It's Absurd To Warme One In His Armour.

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

The Best Remedy Against An Ill Man Is Much Ground Betweene Both. [the Best Remedy Against An Ill Man Is Much Ground Between Both.]

All Are Not Merry That Dance Lightly.

If You Would Bee At Ease, All The World Is Not.

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

The Death Of A Young Wolfe Doth Never Come Too Soon.

He That Plaies His Mony Ought Not To Value It.

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

Who Would Doe Ill Ne're Wants Occasion.

Hee A Beast Doth Die, That Hath Done No Good To His Country.

Follow Not Truth Too Near The Heels, Lest It Dash Out Thy Teeth.

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

If That Thy Fame With Ev'ry Toy Be Pos'd, 'tis A Thin Web, Which Poysonous Fancies Make; But The Great Souldier's Honour Was Compos'd Of Thicker Stuf, Which Would Endure A Shake. Wisdom Picks Friends; Civility Plays The Rest; A Toy Shunn'd Cleanly Passeth With The Best.

The Rich Knowes Not Who Is His Friend. [the Rich Knows Not Who Is His Friend.]

Though Old And Wise, Yet Still Advise.

At Dinner My Man Appeares.

I Had Rather Ride On An Ass That Carries Me Than A Horse That Throws Me.

Be Useful Where Thou Livest.

A Good Judge Conceives Quickly, Judges Slowly.

Take Heed Of A Step-mother; The Very Name Of Her Sufficeth.

The Goate Must Browse Where She Is Tyed.

To The Counsel Of Fools A Wooden Bell.

Armour Is Light At Table.

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

Living Well Is The Best Revenge.

Play Not For Gain, But Sport. Who Plays For More Than He Can Lose With Pleasure, Stakes His Heart; Perhaps His Wife's Too, And Whom She Hath Bore.

They Talke Of Christmas So Long, That It Comes.

God's Breath In Man Returning To His Birth, The Soul In Paraphrase, Heart In Pilgrimage.

Fooles Give To Please All But Their Owne.

Thinke Of Ease, But Worke On.

Words Are Women, Deeds Are Men.

Hee Will Spend A Whole Yeares Rent At One Meales Meate.

The Groundsell Speakes Not Save What It Heard At The Hinges.

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

Hee That Is A Master Must Serve (another).

The Life Of Spies Is To Know, Not Bee Known.

Our Owne Actions Are Our Security, Not Others Judgements.

He That Is Once Borne, Once Must Dy.

The Absent Partie Is Still Faultie.

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

A Well-bred Youth Neither Speakes Of Himselfe, Nor Being Spoken To Is Silent.

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.]

The Longest Day Hath An Eueninge.

A Jade Eates As Much As A Good Horse.

Some Men Plant An Opinion They Seem To Erradicate.

At The Games End We Shall See Who Gaines.

He That Sowes Trusts In God.

Neither Bribe Nor Loose Thy Right.

That Which Two Will, Takes Effect.

He That Hath But One Eye, Must Bee Afraid To Lose It. [he That Hath But One Eye Must Be Afraid To Lose It.]

The Devill Is Not Alwaies At One Doore.

Ther's No Great Banquet But Some Fares Ill.

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

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

Two Ill Meales Make The Third A Glutton.

Every Bees Hony Is Sweet.

To Fine Folkes A Little Ill Finely Wrapt.

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'.

Ill Vessels Seldome Miscarry.

By All Means Use Sometimes To Be Alone.

When War Begins, Then Hell Openeth.

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

Thou Hast Death In Thy House, And Dost Bewaile Anothers.

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

Hee That Marries For Wealth Sells His Liberty.

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

An Old Friend Is A New House.

A Wolfe Will Never Make War Against Another Wolfe.

Divine Grace Was Never Slow.

To Have Money Is A Feare, Not To Have It A Griefe.

The Comforters Head Never Akes.

God Sends Cold According To Clothes.

Little Dogs Start The Hare, The Great Get Her.

We Do It Soon Enough, If That We Do Be Well.

It Is Better To Have Wings Then Hornes.

When It Thunders, The Theefe Becomes Honest. [when It Thunders, The Thief Becomes Honest.]

A Noble Plant Suites Not With A Stubborne Ground.

Building Is A Sweet Impoverishing.

The Jews Spend At Easter.

Who Paies The Physitian, Does The Cure.

Castles Are Forrests Of Stones.

Before You Make A Friend, Eate A Bushell Of Salt With Him.

The Shortest Answer Is Doing.

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

Persons Unmask Their Evilest Qualities When They Do Quarrel.

Who Hath No More Bread Then Neede, Must Not Keepe A Dog.

He That Is Warme, Thinkes All So.

He That Pitties Another, Remembers Himselfe.

A Shippe And A Woman Are Ever Repairing.

The Good Mother Sayes Not, Will You? But Gives.

Ah My Deare God! Though I Am Clean Forgot, Let Me Not Love Thee, If I Love Thee Not.

He That Is Fallen Cannot Helpe Him That Is Downe. [he That Is Fallen Cannot Help Him That Is Down.]

Every Thing Is Of Use To A Houskeeper.

Love Makes All Hard Hearts Gentle.

There Is An Hour Wherein A Man Might Be Happy All His Life, Could He Find It.

Hee That Lives Ill, Feare Followes Him.

Doe What Thou Oughtest, And Come What Come Can.

Humble Hearts Have Humble Desires.

Wine-counsels Seldome Prosper.

I Gave The Mouse A Hole, And She Is Become My Heire. [i Gave The Mouse A Hole, And She Is Become My Heir.]

The Filth Under The White Snow, The Sunne Discovers.

He That Makes A Good War Makes A Good Peace.

Every One Hath A Foole In His Sleeve.

Love Bade Me Welcome, But My Soul Drew Back.

Building And Marrying Of Children Are Great Wasters.

Do Well And Right And Let The World Sink.

Listen, Sweet Dove, Unto My Song, And Spread Thy Golden Wings In Me; Hatching My Tender Heart So Long, Till It Get Wing, And Flie Away With Thee.

Silkes And Satins Put Out The Fire In The Chimney.

The Perswasion Of The Fortunate Swaies The Doubtfull.

He That Hath Lands Hath Quarrells.

Get To Live; Then Live, And Use It; Else, It Is Not True That Thou Hast Gotten. Surely Use Alone Makes Money Not A Contemptible Stone.

He That Chastens One, Chastens 20.

Religion A Stalking Horse To Shoot Other Foul.

That Is Not Good Language Which All Understand Not.

The Thread Breakes, Where It Is Weakest.

A Gift Much Expected Is Paid, Not Given.

In The Mouth Of A Bad Dog Fals Often A Good Bone.

Who Shuts His Hand Has Lost His Gold, Who Opens It Hath It Twice Told.

The Vertue Of A Coward Is Suspition.

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

In A Great River Great Fish Are Found, But Take Heede, Lest You Bee Drowned.

Beate The Dog Before The Lyon.

When One Is On Horsebacke Hee Knowes All Things.

A Full Belly Neither Fights Nor Flies Well.

Goods Are Theirs That Enjoy Them.

That Is Gold Which Is Worth Gold.

The Wind In Ones Face Makes One Wise.

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

In Great Pedigrees There Are Governours And Chandlers.

You Must Lose A Fly To Catch A Trout.

Whether Shall The Oxe Goe, Where He Shall Not Labour?

Good And Quickly Seldom Meet.

To Him That Will, Waies Are Not Wanting.

Great Business Turns On A Little Pin.

Wine That Cost Nothing Is Digested Before It Be Drunke.

He That Serves Well Needes Not Ask His Wages.

Punishment Is Lame, But It Comes.

Half The World Knows Not How The Other Half Lies.

The Mill Gets By Going.

Every Man's Censure Is First Moulded In His Own Nature.

Hee That Labours And Thrives Spins Gold.

Tis Hard To Be Wretched, But Worse To Be Knowne So.

The Sight Of A Man Hath The Force Of A Lyon.

More Have Repented Speech Then Silence. [more Have Repented Speech Than Silence.]

The Tongue Walkes Where The Teeth Speede Not.

Sleepe Without Supping, And Wake Without Owing.

Prosperity Lets Goe The Bridle.

He That Gives Me Small Gifts Would Have Me Live.

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

Little Wealth, Little Care.

He That Passeth A Winters Day Escapes An Enemy.

Water Trotted Is As Good As Oates.

This World Is Nothing Except It Tend To Another.

He That Takes Not Up A Pin, Slights His Wife.

Good Is God, But Better Carries It.

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

In The Kingdome Of A Cheater The Wallet Is Carried Before.

Knowledge Makes One Laugh, But Wealth Makes One Dance.

The Chollerick Drinkes, The Melancholick Eats, The Flegmatick Sleepes.

The Fault Is As Great As Hee That Is Faulty.

Greene Wood Makes A Hott Fire.

To Review Ones Store Is To Mow Twice.

Rivers Neede A Spring.

Pardons And Pleasantnesse Are Great Revenges Of Slanders.

He That Makes His Bed Ill, Lies There.

Man Is All Symmetry Full Of Proportions, One Limb To Another, And All To All The World Besides; Each Part May Call The Farthest, Brother; For Head With Foot Hath Private Amity And Both With Moons And Tides.

He That Will Not Have Peace, God Gives Him Warre. [he That Will Not Have Peace, God Gives Him War.]

Storms Make Oaks Take Deeper Root.

Good Words Are Worth Much, And Cost Little.

With Customes Wee Live Well, But Lawes Undoe Us.

Old Camels Carry Young Camels Skins To The Market.

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

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