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Praise None Too Much, For All Are Fickle.

-George Herbert

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George Herbert

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Praise None Too Much, For All Are Fickle.

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

Water Trotted Is As Good As Oates.

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

Though Punishment Be Slow, Still It Comes.

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.

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

The Wolfe Eats Oft Of The Sheep That Have Been Warn'd.

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

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

If All Fooles Had Babies, Wee Should Want Fuell.

Hee That Will Deceive The Fox, Must Rise Betimes.

He That Marries Late, Marries Ill.

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

The Morning Sunne Never Lasts A Day.

Nothing Secure Unlesse Suspected.

Trust Not One Night's Ice.

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

Go Not For Every Grief To The Physician, Nor For Every Quarrell To The Lawyer, Nor For Every Thirst To The Pot.

Pension Never Inriched Young Man. [pension Never Enriched A Young Man.]

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

Where There Is No Honour, There Is No Griefe.

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

My House, My House, Though Thou Art Small, Thou Art To Me The Escurial.

He That Speakes Sowes, And He That Holds His Peace, Gathers.

He Thinkes Not Well, That Thinkes Not Againe.

Were It Not For The Bone In The Legge, All The World Would Turne Carpenters (to Make Them Crutches).

Every Ill Man Hath His Ill Day.

Presse A Stick, And It Seemes A Youth.

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

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

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

Evening Words Are Not Like To Morning.

He That Hath Lands Hath Quarrells.

Destiny Is Always Dark.

Every One Thinkes His Sacke Heaviest.

He That Gives All Before Hee Dies Provides To Suffer.

He That Will Enter Into Paradise, Must Have A Good Key.

Who Letts His Wife Goe To Every Feast, And His Horse Drinke At Every Water, Shall Neither Have Good Wife Nor Good Horse.

The Way Is An Ill Neighbour.

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

Hunger Makes Dinners, Pastime Suppers.

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

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.

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

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 Mouth Of A Bad Dog Fals Often A Good Bone.

The Tongue Walkes Where The Teeth Speede Not.

To The Counsell Of Fooles A Woodden Bell.

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

Hee Is Rich Enough That Wants Nothing.

Power Seldome Grows Old At Court.

A Flatterers Throat Is An Open Sepulcher.

When God Is Made The Master Of A Family, He Disorders The Disorderly.

Half The World Knows Not How The Other Half Lies.

Stay A Little And News Will Find You.

His Bark Is Worse Than His Bite.

Little Journeys And Good Cost Bring Safe Home.

He That Plaies His Mony Ought Not To Value It.

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

He That Doth What He Should Not, Shall Feele What He Would Not. [he That Doth What He Should Not Shall Feel What He Would Not.]

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

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

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

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

A Master Of Straw Eates A Servant Of Steele.

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.]

No Barber Shaves So Close But Another Finds Worke.

Harken To Reason Or Shee Will Bee Heard.

A House And A Woman Sute Excellently.

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

War Is Death's Feast.

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

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

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

An Old Cat Sports Not With Her Prey.

Fine Dressing Is A Foule House Swept Before The Doores.

Help Thyself, And God Will Help Thee.

Curtesie On One Side Only Lasts Not Long.

Health Without Money Is Halfe An Ague.

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

They That Hold The Greatest Farmes, Pay The Least Rent (applyed To Rich Men That Are Unthankful To God).

Do Well And Right And Let The World Sink.

An Ill Wound Is Cured, Not An Ill Name.

To Whirle The Eyes Too Much Shewes A Kites Braine.

That Is Gold Which Is Worth Gold.

Give A Clown Your Finger, And He Will Take Your Hand.

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

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

By All Means Use Sometimes To Be Alone. Salute Thyself: See What Thy Soul Doth Wear.

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

For A Morning Raine Leave Not Your Journey. [for A Morning Rain Leave Not Your Journey.]

A Snow Yeare, A Rich Yeare.

Chuse A Horse Made, And A Wife To Make.

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

The Miserable Man Makes A Peny Of A Farthing, And The Liberall Of A Farthing Sixe Pence. [the Miserable Man Maketh A Penny Of A Farthing, And The Liberal Of A Farthing Sixpence.]

Dry Bread At Home Is Better Then Rost Meate Abroad.

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

Thornes Whiten Yet Doe Nothing.

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.

You Cannot Make A Wind-mill Goe With A Paire Of Bellowes.

When You Are An Anvill, Hold You Still; When You Are A Hammer, Strike Your Fill.

Hee That Tells His Wife Newes Is But Newly Married.

We Batchelors Laugh And Shew Our Teeth, But You Married Men Laugh Till Your Hearts Ake.

The Fish Adores The Bait.

Willowes Are Weak, Yet They Bind Other Wood.

A Tyrant Is Most Tyrant To Himselfe.

It Is A Poor Sport That Is Not Worth A Candle.

A Dead Bee Maketh No Hony.

Spies Are The Ears And Eyes Of Princes.

Hee That's Fed At Anothers Hand May Stay Long Ere He Be Full.

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

Good And Quickly Seldom Meet.

An Oxe Is Taken By The Horns, And A Man By The Tongue.

Every Mile Is Two In Winter

When A Friend Askes, There Is No To Morrow. [when A Friend Asks, There Is No To-morrow.]

Frenzy, Heresie, And Jealovsie, Seldome Cured.

The Wine In The Bottle Does Not Quench Thirst.

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.

Speake Fitly, Or Be Silent Wisely.

Aske Much To Have A Little.

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

Hee That Lives Well Is Learned Enough.

A Mountaine And A River Are Good Neighbours.

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

The Wind In Ones Face Makes One Wise.

The Healthfull Man Can Give Counsell To The Sick.

A Coole Mouth, And Warme Feet, Live Long.

Little Wealth, Little Care.

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

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

Health And Mony Goe Farre. [health And Money Go Far.]

Hee That Gives Thee A Bone, Would Not Have Thee Die.

The Vertue Of A Coward Is Suspition.

A Poore Mans Cow Dies A Rich Mans Child.

As Flames Do Work And Wind When They Ascend, So Did I Weave Myself Into The Sense.

A Good Mother Is Worth Hundreds Of Schoolmasters.

First Day Of School

Goods Are Theirs That Enjoy Them.

It's Absurd To Warme One In His Armour.

In Cloths Cheap Handsomeness, Doth Bear The Bell.

There Are Many Waies To Fame. {there Are Many Ways To Fame.]

Good Workemen Are Seldome Rich.

A Crooked Log Makes A Strait Fire.

The First And Last Frosts Are The Worst.

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

God Comes To See Without A Bell.

To A Gratefull Man Give Mony When He Askes.

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

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

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

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

With Customes Wee Live Well, But Lawes Undoe Us.

In An Hundred Elles Of Contention, There Is Not An Inch Of Love.

In Thy Discourse, If Thou Desire To Please; All Such Is Courteous, Useful, New, Or Wittie: Usefulness Comes By Labour, Wit Byease; Courtesie Grows In Court; News In The Citie.

Man Proposeth, God Disposeth.

Weight Justly And Sell Dearely.

The Charges Of Building And Making Of Gardens Are Unknowne.

Hee That Eats The Hard Shall Eate The Ripe.

Death Keepes No Calender.

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

To Be Too Busie Gets Contempt.

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

He Is Onely Bright That Shines By Himselfe.

Without Businesse Debauchery.

Ty It Well, And Let It Goe.

Every One Is Witty For His Owne Purpose.

Good Is God, But Better Carries It.

Bee Not Idle And You Shall Not Bee Longing.

In Great Pedigrees There Are Governours And Chandlers.

Armour Is Light At Table.

God Strikes Not With Both Hands, For To The Sea He Made Heavens, And To Rivers Foords.

Though Old And Wise, Yet Still Advise.

None Saies His Garner Is Full.

He That Talkes Much Of His Happinesse Summons Griefe.

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

Much Spends The Traveller, More Then The Abider.

Man Is One World, And Hath / Another To Attend Him.

Three Women Make A Market.

The First Dish Pleaseth All.

He Is A Great Necromancer, For He Asks Counsel Counsell Of The Dead (i.e. Books).

Vnder Water, Famine; Under Snow, Bread.

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

It Is Better To Have Wings Then Hornes.

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

A Little And Good Fills The Trencher.

All Are Not Merry That Dance Lightly.

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

Valour That Parlies Is Neare Yeelding. [valor That Parleys Is Near Yielding.]

A Full Belly Neither Fights Nor Flies Well.

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

An Ill Deed Cannot Bring Honor.

Danger It Selfe The Best Remedy For Danger.

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

If The Husband Be Not At Home, There Is Nobodie.

All Beasts Of Prey Are Strong Or Treacherous.

A Woman Conceales What Shee Knowes Not.

Never Had Ill Workeman Good Tooles.

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

Great Deservers Grow Intolerable Presumers.

He That Serves Well Needes Not Ask His Wages.

No Hair So Small But Hath His Shadow.

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