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Thou Who Hast Given So Much To Me, Give Me One More Thing... A Grateful Heart!

Better Spare To Have Of Thine Own, Then Aske Of Other Men. [better Spare To Have Of Thine Own Than Ask Of Other Men.]

The Gentle Hawke Halfe Mans Her Selfe.

Hee That Goes Barefoot, Must Not Plant Thornes.

Building And Marrying Of Children Are Great Wasters.

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

The Thorne Comes Forth With The Point Forwards.

When War Begins, Then Hell Openeth.

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.

Hunger Makes Dinners, Pastime Suppers.

A Master Of Straw Eates A Servant Of Steele.

He That Hath Lands Hath Quarrells.

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

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

A Wicked Mans Gift Hath A Touch Of His Master.

Hee Commands Enough That Obeyes A Wise Man.

Wine-counsels Seldome Prosper.

He That Feares Death Lives Not.

An Old Cat Sports Not With Her Prey.

Neither Praise Nor Dispraise Thy Selfe, Thy Actins Serve The Turne. [neither Praise Nor Dispraise Thyself; Thy Actions Serve The Turn.]

Gossips Are Frogs, They Drinke And Talke.

Two Ill Meales Make The Third A Glutton.

The Death Of Wolves Is The Safety Of The Sheep.

Whatever Is Made By The Hand Of Man, By The Hand Of Man May Be Overturned.

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

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

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

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

To A Boiling Pot Flies Come Not.

Good Words Are Worth Much, And Cost Little.

To Be Too Busie Gets Contempt.

None Is Borne Master.

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

Woe Be To Him That Reads But One Book.

War Is Death's Feast.

Pardons And Pleasantnesse Are Great Revenges Of Slanders.

Danger It Selfe The Best Remedy For Danger.

Pardon All But Thy Selfe. [pardon All But Thyself.]

Be Not Too Presumptuously Sure In Any Business; For Things Of This World Depend On Such A Train Of Unseen Chances That If It Were In Man's Hands To Set The Tables, Still He Would Not Be Certain To Win The Game.

A Garden Must Be Looked Unto And Dressed As The Body.

He That Makes A Good War Makes A Good Peace.

Great Paines Quickly Find Ease.

Though Old And Wise, Yet Still Advise.

Death Keeps No Calendar.

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

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.]

Honour Without Profit Is A Ring On The Finger.

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

Let All Live As They Would Die.

To A Greedy Eating Horse A Short Halter.

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

Spies Are The Ears And Eyes Of Princes.

Judge Not The Preacher; For He Is Thy Judge: If Thou Mislike Him, Thou Conceiv'st Him Not. God Calleth Preaching Folly. Do Not Grudge To Pick Out Treasures From An Earthen Pot. The Worst Speak Something Good. If All Want Sense, God Takes A Text, And Preaches Patience.

He That Plaies His Mony Ought Not To Value It.

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

You May Be On Land, Yet Not In A Garden.

Nothing Secure Unlesse Suspected.

Working And Making A Fire Doth Discretion Require.

Vertue Flies From The Heart Of A Mercenary Man.

Who Doth His Owne Businesse, Foules Not His Hands.

Who Must Account For Himselfe And Others, Must Know Both.

Would It Even Be Possible To Add A "suggested Wallpaper" Feature That Analyzes Your Favored Walls And Shows Similar Ones?

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

Better Speake Truth Rudely, Then Lye Covertly.

We Cannot Come To Honour Under Coverlet.

He Thinkes Not Well, That Thinkes Not Againe.

Let Anger's Fire Be Slow To Burn.

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.

Good Service Is A Great Inchantment.

The House Shows The Owner.

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

Sundays Observe; Think When The Bells Do Chime, 't Is Angels' Music.

A Man Well Mounted Is Ever Cholerick.

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

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

A Bad Workman Quarrels With His Tools.

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

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

You Must Strike In Measure, When There Are Many To Strike On One Anvile.

Of A New Prince, New Bondage.

Folly Growes Without Watering.

The Scalded Head Feares Cold Water.

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

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.

Halfe The World Knowes Not How The Other Halfe Lies.

To Deceive Ones Selfe Is Very Easie.

A Horse Stumbles That Hath Foure Legges. [a Horse Stumbles That Has Four Legs.]

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

He That Studies His Content, Wants It.

Life Is Half Spent Before We Know What It Is.

The Wind In Ones Face Makes One Wise.

Prayers And Provender Hinder No Journey. [prayers And Provender Hinder No Man's Journey.]

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.

The Filth Under The White Snow, The Sunne Discovers.

'it's This Accursed Science,' I Cried. 'it's The Very Devil. The Mediaeval Priests And Persecutors Were Right, And The Moderns Are All Wrong. You Tamper With It-and It Offers You Gifts. And Directly You Take Them It Knocks You To Pieces In Some Unexpected Way.'

Night Is The Mother Of Counsels.

Express Yourself

A Pittifull Looke Askes Enough.

All Truths Are Not To Be Told.

Bibles Laid Open, Millions Of Surprises.

If You Walk On Snow You Cannot Hide Your Footprints.

This Missing Science Of Heredity, This Unworked Mine Of Knowledge On The Borderland Of Biology And Anthropology, Which For All Practical Purposes Is As Unworked Now As It Was In The Days Of Plato, Is, In Simple Truth, Ten Times More Important To Humanity Than All The Chemistry And Physics, All The Technical And Indsutrial Science That Ever Has Been Or Ever Will Be Discovered.

Doe What Thou Oughtest, And Come What Come Can.

To Weepe For Joy Is A Kinde Of Manna.

When Thou Dost Tell Another's Jest, Therein Omit The Oaths, Which True Wit Cannot Need; Pick Out Of Tales The Mirth, But Not The Sin.

Hee That Lives Well Is Learned Enough.

A Little And Good Fills The Trencher.

Hee That Goes To Bed Thirsty Riseth Healthy.

This World Is Nothing Except It Tend To Another.

Better Never Begin Than Never Make An End.

All That Shakes Falles Not.

Love Your Neighbor, Yet Pull Not Down Your Hedge.

Estate In Two Parishes Is Bread In Two Wallets.

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

The Devil Divides The World Between Atheism And Superstition.

In Every Countrey The Sun Rises In The Morning. [in Every Country The Sun Rises In The Morning.]

All Things Have Their Place, Knew Wee How To Place Them.

Thornes Whiten Yet Doe Nothing.

Hee That Brings Good Newes Knockes Hard.

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

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

A Good Digestion Turneth All To Health.

Count Not Fowre Except You Have Them In A Wallett.

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

True Praise Rootes And Spreedes.

God Oft Hath A Great Share In A Little House.

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

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

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

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

Wisedome Hath One Foot On Land, And Another On Sea.

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

The Soule Needs Few Things, The Body Many.

He That Lives Well Sees A Farre Off.

Hee Begins To Die, That Quits His Desires.

Citties Are Taken By The Eares.

He Can Give Little To His Servant, That Lickes His Knife. [he Can Give Little To His Servant That Licks His Knife.]

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

Love And Businesse Teach Eloquence.

Drink Not The Third Glass, Which Thou Canst Not Tame, When Once It Is Within Thee; But Before Mayst Rule It, As Thou List: And Pour The Shame, Which It Would Pour On Thee, Upon The Floor. It Is Most Just To Throw That On The Ground, Which Would Throw Me There, If I Keep The Round.

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

Castles Are Forrests Of Stones.

He Lives Unsafely, That Lookes Too Neere On Things.

The Words Ending In Ique Do Mocke The Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).

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

If You Must Flie, Flie Well.

Wealth Is The Conjurer's Devil, Whom, When He Thinks He Hath, The Devil Hath Him.

Light Burdens, Long Borne, Grow Heavy.

A Snow Yeare, A Rich Yeare.

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

In War, Hunting, And Love, Men For One Pleasure A Thousand Griefes Prove.

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

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

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

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

Fortune To One Is Mother, To Another Is Step-mother.

In Solitude, Be A Multitude To Thyself.

The Crow Bewailes The Sheepe, And Then Eates It.

All Beasts Of Prey Are Strong Or Treacherous.

Old Camels Carry Young Camels Skins To The Market.

Better To Be Blinde, Then To See Ill.

Hee That Stumbles And Falles Not, Mends His Pace.

Losse Embraceth Shame.

He Is Onely Bright That Shines By Himselfe.

Happier Are The Hands Compast With Yron, Then A Heart With Thoughts.

No Alchymy To Saving.

For Want Of A Naile The Shoe Is Lost, For Want Of A Shoe The Horse Is Lost, For Want Of A Horse The Rider Is Lost.

Little Journeys And Good Cost Bring Safe Home.

You Cannot Make The Fire So Low But It Will Get Out.

The Comforters Head Never Akes.

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.]

The Apothecaries Morter Spoiles The Luters Musick.

The Foole Askes Much, But Hee Is More Foole That Grants It.

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

The Resolved Mind Hath No Cares.

If Folly Were Griefe Every House Would Weepe. [if Folly Were Grief, Every House Would Weep.]

The Market Is The Best Garden.

Gentility Is Nothing But Ancient Riches.

The Escaped Mouse Ever Feeles The Taste Of The Bait. [the Escaped Mouse Ever Feels The Taste Of The Bait.]

The Hard Gives More Then He That Hath Nothing.

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

Do Not Wait; The Time Will Never Be 'just Right.' Start Where You Stand, And Work With Whatever Tools You May Have At Your Command, And Better Tools Will Be Found As You Go Along.

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

Who Would Doe Ill Ne're Wants Occasion.

Good And Quickly Seldom Meet.

Thursday Come, And The Week's Gone.

Feares Are Divided In The Midst.

Little Wealth, Little Care.

He That's Foolish In The Fault, Let Him Be Wise In The Punishment.

The Best Mirror Is An Old Friend.

Praise A Hill, But Keepe Below.

He That Serves Well Needes Not Ask His Wages.

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

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

Who Is So Deafe, As He That Will Not Hear?

Dogs Are Fine In The Field.

A Hatt Is Not Made For One Shower.

A Bad Dog Never Sees The Wolfe.

He That Riseth Betimes Hath Some Thing In His Head.

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

Water, Fire, And Souldiers, Quickly Make Roome. [water, Fire, And Soldiers Quickly Make Room.]

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