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

-George Herbert

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George Herbert

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

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The Eyes Have One Language Everywhere.

Take All That Is Given Whether Wealth, Love Or Language, Nothing Comes By Mistake And With Good Digestion All Can Be Turned To Health.

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

Between The Businesse Of Life And The Day Of Death, A Space Ought To Be Interposed.

A Drunkards Purse Is A Bottle.

To Buy Deare Is Not Bounty.

Hee Commands Enough That Obeyes A Wise Man.

To A Gratefull Man Give Mony When He Askes.

They Favour Learning Whose Actions Are Worthy Of A Learned Pen.

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

He That Commits A Fault, Thinkes Every One Speakes Of It. [he That Commits A Fault Thinks Everyone Speaks Of It.]

The Jews Spend At Easter.

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

Every Sin Brings Its Punishment With It.

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

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

Never Was Strumpet Faire.

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

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

Hee That Goes To Bed Thirsty Riseth Healthy.

No Alchymy To Saving.

Neither Eyes On Letters, Nor Hands In Coffers.

A Great Ship Asks Deep Water.

No Profit To Honour, No Honour To Religion.

The Charges Of Building And Making Of Gardens Are Unknowne.

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

The Honey Is Sweet, But The Bee Stings.

The Vertue Of A Coward Is Suspition.

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

A Long Tongue Is A Signe Of A Short Hand. [a Long Tongue Is A Sign Of A Short Hand.]

Faire Language Grates Not The Tongue.

Words Are Women, Deeds Are Men.

No Barber Shaves So Close But Another Finds Worke.

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

Ty It Well, And Let It Goe.

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

Hee Lookes Not Well To Himselfe That Lookes Not Ever.

Every One Is Witty For His Owne Purpose.

Some Evils Are Cured By Contempt.

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

When All Men Have What Belongs To Them, It Cannot Bee Much. [when All Men Have What Belongs To Them, It Cannot Be Much.]

A Beane In Liberty Is Better Then A Comfit In Prison.

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.

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

Drought Never Brought Dearth.

To Speake Of An Vsurer At The Table Marres The Wine.

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

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

A Gift Much Expected Is Paid, Not Given.

Were There No Hearers, There Would Be No Backbiters.

When The Foxe Preacheth, Beware Geese.

Discreet Women Have Neither Eyes Nor Eares. [discreet Women Have Neither Eyes Nor Ears.]

Nothing Secure Unlesse Suspected.

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

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

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

Waight And Measure Take Away Strife.

To Take The Nuts From The Fire With The Dogges Foot. [to Take The Nuts From The Fire With The Dog's Foot.]

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

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

Music Helps Not The Toothache.

The Apothecaries Morter Spoiles The Luters Musick.

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

On A Good Bargain Think Twice.

A Journying Woman Speakes Much Of All, And All Of Her.

Let All Live As They Would Die.

He That Lends, Gives.

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

Knowledge Is Folly Unless Grace Guide It.

Beauty Drawes More Then Oxen.

Good Horses Make Short Miles.

Hee That Workes After His Owne Manner, His Head Akes Not At The Matter.

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

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

The Thread Breakes, Where It Is Weakest.

It's No Sure Rule To Fish With A Cros-bow.

Teach Me, My God And King In All Things Thee To See And What I Do In Anything To Do It As For Thee

A Good Pay-master Starts Not At Assurances.

It's Not Good Fishing Before The Net.

Soft And Faire Goes Farre.

All Things Require Skill But An Appetite.

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

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

In Sports And Journeys Men Are Knowne. [in Sports And Journeys Men Are Known.]

I Was Taken By A Morsell, Saies The Fish. [i Was Taken By A Morsel, Says The Fish.]

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.

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

The Effect Speakes, The Tongue Needes Not. [the Effect Speaks, The Tongue Needs Not.]

To A Good Spender God Is The Treasurer.

Vertue Flies From The Heart Of A Mercenary Man.

Although It Raine, Throw Not Away Thy Watering Pot.

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

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

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

Threatned Men Eat Bread, Says The Spaniard.

A White Wall Is The Paper Of A Foole.

The First Dish Pleaseth All.

God Strikes With His Finger, And Not With All His Arm.

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

The Ignorant Hath An Eagles Wings, And An Owles Eyes. [the Ignorant Hath An Eagle's Wings And An Owl's Eyes.]

One Foote Is Better Then Two Crutches.

Old Camels Carry Young Camels Skins To The Market.

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

Stay A Little And News Will Find You.

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

The Tongue Walkes Where The Teeth Speede Not.

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

Spanish Proverb

Quick Believers Need Broad Shoulders.

Great Businesses Turne On A Little Pinne.

Woe Be To Him That Reads But One Book.

War Is Death's Feast.

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

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

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.

I Know The Ways Of Pleasure, The Sweet Strains, The Lullings And The Relishes Of It.

Lend Only What You Can Afford To Lose.

Little Dogs Start The Hare, The Great Get Her.

Everyone Is A Master And Servant.

Masters And Servants

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

Your Pot Broken Seemes Better Then My Whole One.

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.

He That Hath Hornes In His Bosom, Let Him Not Put Them On His Head.

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.]

It Is Better To Have Wings Then Hornes.

Hee Looseth Nothing, That Looseth Not God.

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

Everyone Thinks His Sack Heaviest.

The Great Put The Little On The Hooke.

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

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

Councell Breakes Not The Head.

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

Though Old And Wise, Yet Still Advise.

The Best Mirror Is An Old Friend.

Three Can Hold Their Peace, If Two Be Away.

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

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

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

An Idle Youth, A Needy Age.

Better A Bare Foote Then None.

He That Burnes Most Shines Most.

Pursue Not A Victory Too Far. He Hath Conquered Well That Hath Made His Enemy Fly; Thou Mayest Beat Him To A Desperate Resistance, Which May Ruin Thee.

An Ill Labourer Quarrells With His Tooles.

Ill Comes In By Ells, And Goes Out By Inches.

In A Retreat The Lame Are Formost. [in A Retreat The Lame Are Foremost.]

In Great Pedigrees There Are Governours And Chandlers.

The Absent Partie Is Still Faultie.

One Graine Fills Not A Sacke, But Helpes His Fellowes.

Praise A Hill, But Keepe Below.

A Good Bargaine Is A Pick-purse. [a Good Bargain Is A Pick-purse.]

The Eye And Religion Can Beare No Jesting.

To Be Too Busie Gets Contempt.

Jest Not With The Eye Or With Religion.

Love Your Neighbor, Yet Pull Not Down Your Hedge.

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.]

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

He That Owes Nothing, If He Makes Not Mouthes At Us, Is Courteous.

Money Wants No Followers.

Dogs Are Fine In The Field.

Chuse Not An House Neere An Lnne (viz. For Noise) Or In A Corner (for Filth).

In Every Country Dogges Bite.

Hee That Will Deceive The Fox, Must Rise Betimes.

Parsons Are Soules Waggoners.

The Singing Man Keepes His Shop In His Throate.

Goods Are Theirs That Enjoy Them.

Fear Keepes And Looks To The Vineyard, And Not The Owner.

He That Is Angry At A Feast Is Rude.

He That Steals An Egg Will Steal An Ox.

Church Bells Beyond The Stars Heard, The Soul's Blood, The Land Of Spices; Something Understood.

He That Chastens One, Chastens 20.

No Tye Can Oblige The Perfidious. [no Tie Can Oblige The Perfidious.]

Of A Pigs Taile You Can Never Make A Good Shaft. [of A Pig's Tail You Can Never Make A Good Shaft.]

A Snow Yeare, A Rich Yeare.

Old Wine, And An Old Friend, Are Good Provisions.

It's An Ill Councell That Hath No Escape.

When A Man Sleepes, His Head Is In His Stomach.

The Wrongs Of A Husband Or Master Are Not Reproached.

All Came From, And Will Goe To Others.

To Write A Verse Or Two Is All The Praise That I Can Raise.

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

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

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

He That Seekes Trouble Never Misses. [he That Seeks Trouble Never Misses.]

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

That Flesh Is But The Glasse, Which Holds The Dust That Measures All Our Time; Which Also Shall Be Crumbled Into Dust.

Infants Manners Are Moulded More By The Example Of Parents, Then By Stars At Their Nativities.

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

The Bird Loves Her Nest.

The Morning Sunne Never Lasts A Day.

Persons Unmask Their Evilest Qualities When They Do Quarrel.

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.]

Life Is Half Spent Before We Know What It Is.

The Yeare Doth Nothing Else But Open And Shut.

He That Talkes Much Of His Happinesse Summons Griefe.

Of Faire Things, The Autumne Is Faire.

A House And A Woman Sute Excellently.

Gamsters And Race-horses Never Last Long.

The Command Of Custome Is Great.

A Hundredload Of Worry Will Not Pay An Ounce Of Debt.

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

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