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

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He Pares His Apple That Will Cleanly Feed.

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

To Review Ones Store Is To Mow Twice.

The Wife Is The Key Of The House.

Hee Lookes Not Well To Himselfe That Lookes Not Ever.

We Must Love, As Looking One Day To Hate.

Mony Refused Looseth Its Brightnesse.

He That Measures Not Himselfe, Is Measured.

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.]

Building Is A Sweet Impoverishing.

Every One Is Witty For His Owne Purpose.

Be What Thou Wouldst Seeme To Be.

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

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

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

All Are Presumed Good Till They Are Found At Fault.

One Paire Of Eares Drawes Dry An Hundred Tongues.

One Stroke Fells Not An Oke.

Forbeare Not Sowing Because Of Birds.

Hee That Keepes His Owne Makes Warre.

To Be Too Busie Gets Contempt.

A Man Well Mounted Is Ever Cholerick.

He That Mockes A Cripple, Ought To Be Whole.

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

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

The Hearts Letter Is Read In The Eyes.

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

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

The First Blow Is As Much As Two.

The Market Is The Best Garden.

That Which Will Not Be Spun, Let It Not Come Betweene The Spindle And The Distaffe.

The Eye Is Bigger Then The Belly. [the Eye Is Bigger Than The Belly.]

It's Absurd To Warme One In His Armour.

The Filth Under The White Snow, The Sunne Discovers.

A Sad, Wise Valor Is The Brave Complexion.

He That Lends, Gives.

Almes Never Make Poore.

Least At Thine Own Things Laugh.

Resort To Sermons, But To Prayers Most: Praying's The End Of Preaching.

Keep Good Company, And You Shall Be Of The Number.

If Yee Would Know A Knave, Give Him A Staffe.

Send Not A Catt For Lard.

Beauty Draws More Than Oxen.

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

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

Who Spits Against Heaven, It Falls In His Face.

Doe What Thou Oughtest, And Come What Come Can.

Princes Are Venison In Heaven.

He That Gives All Before Hee Dies Provides To Suffer.

Amongst Good Men Two Men Suffice.

With Customes Wee Live Well, But Lawes Undoe Us.

O What A Sight Were Man, If His Attires Did Alter With His Minde; And Like A Dolphins Skinne, His Clothes Combin'd With His Desires!

Service Is No Inheritance.

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?

The Beast That Goes Alwaies Never Wants Blowes.

One Flower Makes No Garland.

He That Once Deceives Is Ever Suspected.

He Cannot Be Vertuous That Is Not Rigorous.

Hee Begins To Die, That Quits His Desires.

The Perswasion Of The Fortunate Swaies The Doubtfull.

Love And Businesse Teach Eloquence.

They Talke Of Christmas So Long, That It Comes.

Sweet Day, So Cool, So Calm, So Bright, / The Bridal Of The Earth And Sky.

Prayer Should Be The Key Of The Day And The Lock Of The Night.

It's Not Good Fishing Before The Net.

To A Gratefull Man Give Mony When He Askes.

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

A Good Mother Is Worth Hundreds Of Schoolmasters.

First Day Of School

The House Shewes The Owner.

God, And Parents, And Our Master, Can Never Be Requited.

Lord, With What Care Hast Thou Begirt Us Round! Parents First Season Us; Then Schoolmasters Deliver Us To Laws; They Send Us Bound To Rules Of Reason, Holy Messengers, Pulpits And Sundays, Sorrow Dogging Sin, Afflictions Sorted, Anguish Of All Sizes, Fine Nets And Stratagems To Catch Us In, Bibles Laid Open, Millions Of Surprises, Blessings Beforehand, Ties Of Gratefulness, The Sound Of Glory Ringing In Our Ears: Without, Our Shame; Within, Our Consciences; Angels And Grace, Eternal Hopes And Fears. Yet All These Fences And Their Whole Array One Cunning Bosom-sin Blows Quite Away.

The Way Is An Ill Neighbour.

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

The Offender Never Pardons.

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

The Healthfull Man Can Give Counsell To The Sick.

One Faire Day In Winter Makes Not Birds Merrie.

To Deceive Ones Selfe Is Very Easie.

Though You See A Church-man Ill, Yet Continue In The Church Still.

One Foote Is Better Then Two Crutches.

The Comforters Head Never Akes.

He That Hath Lands Hath Quarrells.

A Drunkards Purse Is A Bottle.

Nothing Dries Sooner Then A Teare.

Evening Words Are Not Like To Morning.

For The Same Man To Be An Heretick And A Good Subject, Is Incompossible.

He That Preacheth Giveth Almes.

Fine Words Dresse Ill Deedes.

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

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

Presse A Stick, And It Seemes A Youth.

Wealth Is Like Rheume, It Falles On The Weakest Parts.

Hee That Hath A Fox For His Mate, Hath Neede Of A Net At His Girdle.

Anothers Bread Costs Deare.

A Lean Compromise Is Better Than A Fat Lawsuit.

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

Love Bade Me Welcome, But My Soul Drew Back.

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

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

Good Newes May Bee Told At Any Time, But Ill In The Morning.

A House And A Woman Sute Excellently.

He That Gains Well And Spends Well Needs No Count Book.

Warre Is Deaths Feast.

He That Lives Well Sees A Farre Off.

He Who Cannot Forgive Breaks The Bridge Over Which He Himself Must Pass.

Faire Is Not Faire, But That Which Pleaseth.

Were There No Fooles, Badd Ware Would Not Passe.

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

Good Land, Evill Way.

The Fatt Man Knoweth Not, What The Leane Thinketh.

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.

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

To Whirle The Eyes Too Much Shewes A Kites Braine.

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

Ships Feare Fire More Then Water. [ships Fear Fire More Than Water.]

The Best Of The Sport Is To Doe The Deede, And Say Nothing.

Hee That Dines And Leaves, Layes The Cloth Twice.

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

Speake Not Of A Dead Man At The Table.

Who Hath No Head, Needes No Heart.

After The House Is Finisht, Leave It.

Who Hath None To Still Him, May Weepe Out His Eyes. [who Hath None To Still Him, May Weep Out His Eyes.]

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

Take Heed Of Foul Dirty Wayes, And Long Sicknesse.

His Bark Is Worse Than His Bite.

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

That Which Sufficeth Is Not Little.

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

He That Trusts Much Obliges Much, Says The Spaniard.

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.

Hee That Hath Patience Hath Fatt Thrushes For A Farthing.

Throw Away Thy Rod, Throw Away Thy Wrath; O My God, Take The Gentle Path.

Who Will Make A Doore Of Gold Must Knock A Naile Every Day.

Take Heed Of The Wrath Of A Mighty Man, And The Tumult Of The People.

He That Passeth A Winters Day Escapes An Enemy.

Truth And Oyle Are Ever Above. [truth And Oil Are Ever Above.]

Deceive Not Thy Physician, Confessor, Nor Lawyer.

Souldiers In Peace Are Like Chimneys In Summer.

In The World Who Knowes Not To Swimme, Goes To The Bottome. [in The World, Who Knows Not To Swim Goes To The Bottom.]

The Cholerick Man Never Wants Woe.

All Feete Tread Not In One Shoe.

Emptie Vessels Sound Most.

He That Studies His Content, Wants It.

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

A Scab'd Horse Cannot Abide The Comb.

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

Wine Ever Paies For His Loding.

Who Gives To All, Denies All.

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

Religion, Credit, And The Eye Are Not To Be Touched.

The Longest Day Hath An Eueninge.

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

Better Never Begin Than Never Make An End.

Patience, Time And Money Accommodate All Things.

He That Talkes Much Of His Happinesse Summons Griefe.

Hee That Is Throwne Would Ever Wrestle.

Three Women Make A Market.

Vnder Water, Famine; Under Snow, Bread.

The Tongue Walkes Where The Teeth Speede Not.

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

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

A Litle Wind Kindles; Much Puts Out The Fire.

A Snow Year, A Rich Year.

An Ill Labourer Quarrells With His Tooles.

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

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?

A Small Heart Hath Small Desires.

Be Useful Where Thou Livest.

Hee That Looseth His Due, Gets Not Thankes.

He That Goeth Farre Hath Many Encounters.

Weight Justly And Sell Dearely.

The Thorne Comes Forth With The Point Forwards.

There Are Three Waies, The Vniversities, The Sea, The Court.

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

Promising Is The Eve Of Giving.

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

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.]

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.

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

A Pleasure Long Expected Is Deare Enough Sold.

Religion A Stalking Horse To Shoot Other Foul.

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

Danger It Selfe The Best Remedy For Danger.

Ready Mony Is A Ready Medicine.

Good Service Is A Great Inchantment.

Dogs Are Fine In The Field.

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

Hope Is The Poor Man's Bread.

Who Will Sell The Cow, Must Say The Word.

This World Is Nothing Except It Tend To Another.

He Thinkes Not Well, That Thinkes Not Againe.

Neither Bribe Nor Loose Thy Right.

After So Many Deaths I Live And Write.

A Fat House-keeper Makes Leane Executors. [a Fat Housekeeper Makes Lean Executors.]

Many Friends In Generall, One In Speciall.

Look Not For Musk In A Dog's Kennel.

Hee Is Not Free That Drawes His Chaine.

Hee That Learnes A Trade Hath A Purchase Made.

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

Neither Eyes On Letters, Nor Hands In Coffers.

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