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He Is A Foole That Makes A Wedge Of His Fist.

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.

Praise Day At Night, And Life At The End.

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

Amongst Good Men Two Men Suffice.

Better Speake Truth Rudely, Then Lye Covertly.

Give Not S. Peter So Much, To Leave Saint Paul Nothing. [give Not Saint Peter So Much, To Leave Saint Paul Nothing.]

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

Cruelty Is More Cruell, If We Defer The Pain.

The Bird Loves Her Nest.

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.

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

All Beasts Of Prey Are Strong Or Treacherous.

Every Sin Brings Its Punishment With It.

A Good Judge Conceives Quickly, Judges Slowly.

Half The World Knows Not How The Other Half Lies.

Hee That Hath Right, Feares; He That Hath Wrong, Hopes.

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.]

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

He That Is Angry At A Feast Is Rude.

Every One Fastens Where There Is Gaine.

None Is So Wise, But The Foole Overtakes Him.

Would You Know What Money Is, Go Borrow Some.

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

The Wine In The Bottle Does Not Quench Thirst.

Bee Not Idle And You Shall Not Bee Longing.

Little Wealth, Little Care.

Hee That Bewailes Himselfe Hath The Cure In His Hands.

Losse Embraceth Shame.

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

Better Good Afarre Off, Then Evill At Hand. [better Good Afar Than Evil At Hand.]

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

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

Sink Not In Spirit; Who Aimeth At The Sky Shoots Higher Much Than He That Means A Tree.

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

There Is A Remedy For Every Thing, Could Men Find It.

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

Many Kiss The Hand They Wish Cut Off.

The Blind Eate Many A Flie. [the Blind Eat Many A Fly.]

A House And A Woman Sute Excellently.

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

In Time Comes He Whom God Sends.

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

That From Small Fires Comes Oft No Small Mishap.

Hee Is A Foole That Thinks Not That Another Thinks.

If A Good Man Thrive, All Thrive With Him.

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.

Bells Call Others, But Themselves Enter Not Into The Church.

Hee That Keepes His Owne Makes Warre.

Love Makes All Hard Hearts Gentle.

One Mouth Doth Nothing Without Another.

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

After The House Is Finisht, Leave It.

Better A Barefoot Than None.

The Worst Speak Something Good; If All Want Sense, God Takes A Text, And Preacheth Patience.

Persons Unmask Their Evilest Qualities When They Do Quarrel.

Greene Wood Makes A Hott Fire.

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

If The Braine Sowes Not Corne, It Plants Thistles.

Jest Not With The Eye Or With Religion.

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

The Dog Gnawes The Bone Because He Cannot Swallow It.

The Royall Crowne Cures Not The Head-ach. [the Royal Crown Cures Not The Headache.]

Who Spits Against Heaven, It Falls In His Face.

Some Had Rather Lose Their Friend Then Their Jest.

What One Day Gives Us, Another Takes Away From Us. [what One Day Gives, Another Takes Away From Us.]

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

If The Wise Erred Not, It Would Goe Hard With Fooles. [if The Wise Erred Not, It Would Go Hard With Fools.]

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

To Buy Deare Is Not Bounty.

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

He That Passeth A Winters Day Escapes An Enemy.

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

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

Take Heede Of The Viniger Of Sweet Wine.

A Full Belly Neither Fights Nor Flies Well.

Words Are Women, Deeds Are Men.

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

Folly Growes Without Watering.

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

A Litle Wind Kindles; Much Puts Out The Fire.

Knowledge Makes One Laugh, But Wealth Makes One Dance.

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

Gentility Is Nothing But Ancient Riches.

He That Will Learn To Pray, Let Him Go To Sea.

Skill And Confidence Are An Unconquered Army.

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

He That Studies His Content, Wants It.

The War Is Not Don So Long As My Enemy Lives. [the War Is Not Done So Long As My Enemy Lives.]

A Sleepy Master Makes His Servant A Lowt.

It's A Proud Horse That Will Not Carry His Owne Provender.

Forbeare Not Sowing Because Of Birds.

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

He That Chastens One, Chastens 20.

He That Will Be Served Must Bee Patient.

Cover Your Selfe With Your Shield, And Care Not For Cryes.

The Least Foolish Is Wise.

He That Serves Well Needes Not Ask His Wages.

He Is Onely Bright That Shines By Himselfe.

The Gowne Is His That We Ares It, And The World His That Enjoyes It.

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

Who Would Have Thought My Shrivel'd Heart Could Have Recovered Greenness?

If I Have Enough For Myself And Family, I Am Steward Only For Myself; If I Have More, I Am But A Steward Of That Abundance For Others.

A Cherefull Looke Makes A Dish A Feast.

His Bark Is Worse Than His Bite.

All Keyes Hang Not On One Girdle.

Slander Is A Shipwrack By A Dry Tempest.

If You Must Flie, Flie Well.

Hee That Hath Charge Of Soules Transports Them Not In Bundles.

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

Benefits Please Like Flowers While They Are Fresh.

The First Dish Pleaseth All.

Beauty Draws More Than Oxen.

Every Thing Is Of Use To A Houskeeper.

The Thorne Comes Forth With The Point Forwards.

A Good Heart Cannot Lye

Great Trees Are Good For Nothing But Shade.

Marry Your Daughters Betimes, Lest They Marry Themselves.

Everyone Thinks His Sack Heaviest.

Hee That Is A Master Must Serve (another).

Promising Is The Eve Of Giving.

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

The House Shows The Owner.

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

Learn Weeping, And Thou Shalt Laugh Gaining.

Gold Thou Mayst Safely Touch; But If It Stick Unto Thy Hands, It Woundeth To The Quick.

Shall I, To Please Another Wine-sprung Minde, Lose All Mine Own? God Hath Giv'n Me A Measure Short Of His Can And Body; Must I Find A Pain In That, Wherein He Finds A Pleasure?

Assaile Who Will, The Valiant Attends.

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

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

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

Every One Is Witty For His Owne Purpose.

One Slumber Finds Another.

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

A Wolfe Will Never Make War Against Another Wolfe.

Beate The Dog Before The Lyon.

It Is Better To Have Wings Then Hornes.

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

Thursday Come, And The Week's Gone.

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.]

Step By Step The Ladder Is Ascended.

You Cannot Hide An Eele In A Sacke.

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.]

A Drunkards Purse Is A Bottle.

Though God Take The Sunne Out Of The Heaven, Yet We Must Have Patience.

Having Patience

Sum Up At Night What Thou Hast Done By Day.

Who Says That Fictions Only And False Hair Become A Verse? Is There In Truth No Beauty? Is All Good Structure In A Winding Stair?

He Hath No Leisure Who Useth It Not.

Night Is The Mother Of Counsels.

Express Yourself

Good Words Are Worth Much, And Cost Little.

There Needs A Long Time To Know The Worlds Pulse.

Reason And Speech We Onely Bring.

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

He That Hopes Not For Good, Feares Not Evill.

In The House Of A Fidler, All Fiddle. [in The House Of The Fiddler All Fiddle.]

A Lyons Skin Is Never Cheape.

Men Speake Of The Faire, As Things Went With Them There.

Emptie Vessels Sound Most.

The Wind In Ones Face Makes One Wise.

Vertue Now Is In Herbs And Stones And Words Onely.

The Goate Must Browse Where She Is Tyed.

No Day So Clear But Hath Dark Clouds.

Weening Is Not Measure.

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

Who Gives To All, Denies All.

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

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

He Pares His Apple That Will Cleanly Feed.

Music Helps Not The Toothache.

Three Helping One Another, Beare The Burthen Of Sixe. [three Helping One Another, Bear The Burden Of Six.]

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

The Fish Adores The Bait.

If You Could Runne, As You Drinke, You Might Catch A Hare.

Ever Since We Weare Cloathes, We Know Not One Another.

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.

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

Be What Thou Wouldst Seeme To Be.

Patience, Time And Money Accommodate All Things.

Brabling Curres Never Want Torne Eares.

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

He Puls With A Long Rope, That Waits For Anothers Death.

To Bee Beloved Is Above All Bargaines.

A Snow Yeare, A Rich Yeare.

Let None Say, I Will Not Drinke Water.

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

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

Flies Are Busiest About Leane Horses.

An Ill Agreement Is Better Then A Good Judgement. [an Ill Agreement Is Better Than A Good Judgment.]

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.

Envy Not Greatness: For Thou Mak'st Thereby Thyself The Worse, And So The Distance Greater.

Words And Feathers The Wind Carries Away.

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

The Life Of Man Is A Winter Way.

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

Destiny Is Always Dark.

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

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

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

Better A Snotty Child, Then His Nose Wip'd Off.

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

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