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

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

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He That Hath Not The Craft, Let Him Shut Up Shop.

Feare Keepes The Garden Better Then The Gardiner.

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

No Barber Shaves So Close But Another Finds Worke.

The Physitian Owes All To The Patient, But The Patient Owes Nothing To Him But A Little Mony.

By The Needle You Shall Draw The Thread, And By That Which Is Past, See How That Which Is To Come Will Be Drawne On.

The Perswasion Of The Fortunate Swaies The Doubtfull.

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

Knowledge Makes One Laugh, But Wealth Makes One Dance.

Take Heed Of Credit Decaid, And People That Have Nothing.

A Great Dowry Is A Bed Full Of Brables. [a Great Dowry Is A Bed Full Of Brambles.]

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

Hee That Keepes His Owne Makes Warre.

A Disarmed Peace Is Weake.

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

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

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

Jest Not With The Eye Or With Religion.

The Wife Is The Key Of The House.

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

The Reasons Of The Poore Weigh Not. [the Reasons Of The Poor Weigh Not.]

Hast Comes Not Alone.

He That Burnes Most Shines Most.

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

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

One Sound Blow Will Serve To Undo Us All.

Could Have Recovered Greenness?

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

He That Contemplates Hath A Day Without Night.

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

Punishment Is Lame, But It Comes.

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

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

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

There Needs A Long Time To Know The Worlds Pulse.

Who Goes To Bed, And Doth Not Pray, Maketh Two Nights To Every Day!

Get To Live; Then Live, And Use It; Else, It Is Not True That Thou Hast Gotten. Surely Use Alone Makes Money Not A Contemptible Stone.

Hee A Beast Doth Die, That Hath Done No Good To His Country.

Who Gives To All, Denies All.

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

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

Good Service Is A Great Inchantment.

Do Not Grudge To Pick Out Treasures From An Earthen Pot. The Worst Speaks Something Good.

He That Is Not In The Warres Is Not Out Of Danger.

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

Hee That Will Deceive The Fox, Must Rise Betimes.

He That Is His Owne Counsellor Knowes Nothing Sure But What Hee Hath Laid Out.

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

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

When A Lackey Comes To Hells Doore, The Devills Locke The Gates.

The Bit That One Eates, No Friend Makes.

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

That From Small Fires Comes Oft No Small Mishap.

He That Riseth Betimes Hath Some Thing In His Head.

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

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.

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

By All Means Use Sometimes To Be Alone.

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?

The Eyes Have One Language Everywhere.

He That Will Take The Bird, Must Not Skare It.

Reason And Speech We Onely Bring.

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

One Foote Is Better Then Two Crutches.

Knowledge Is But Folly Unless It Is Guided By Grace.

Who Hath A Wolfe For His Mate, Needes A Dog For His Man.

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

Good Land, Evill Way.

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

Man Is All Symmetry Full Of Proportions, One Limb To Another, And All To All The World Besides; Each Part May Call The Farthest, Brother; For Head With Foot Hath Private Amity And Both With Moons And Tides.

February Makes A Bridge And March Breakes It. [february Makes A Bridge, And March Breaks It.]

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

The Crow Bewailes The Sheepe, And Then Eates It.

A Blustering Night, A Faire Day. [a Blustering Night, A Fair Day.]

A Woman Conceales What Shee Knowes Not.

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

Fooles Bite One Another, But Wise-men Agree Together.

The Way Is An Ill Neighbour.

Chuse None For Thy Servant Who Have Served Thy Betters.

Sinnes Are Not Knowne Till They Bee Acted.

The Honey Is Sweet, But The Bee Stings.

When Children Stand Quiet, They Have Done Some Ill.

There Is No Heat Of Affection But Is Joyned With Some Idlenesse Of Brain, Says The Spaniard.

Hee That Brings Good Newes Knockes Hard.

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

Whatsoever Was The Father Of A Disease, An Ill Diet Was The Mother.

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

Presents Of Love Fear Not To Be Ill Taken Of Strangers.

The Wearer Knowes, Where The Shoe Wrings.

Your Pot Broken Seemes Better Then My Whole One.

A Married Man Turns His Staffe Into A Stake.

Corn Is Cleaned With Wind, And The Soul With Chastening

Thou Hast Death In Thy House, And Dost Bewaile Anothers.

The Resolved Mind Hath No Cares.

States Have Their Conversions And Periods As Well As Naturall Bodies.

To A Fair Day Open The Window, But Make You Ready As To A Foule.

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

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

Though The Fox Run, The Chicken Hath Wings.

It's A Dangerous Fire Begins In The Bed-straw.

A Good Heart Cannot Lye

Without Favour None Will Know You, And With It You Will Not Know Your Selfe.

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

Take Heed Of Foul Dirty Wayes, And Long Sicknesse.

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

God Sends A Curst Cow Short Horns.

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.

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

To Play At Chesse When The House Is On Fire.

The Fish Adores The Bait.

He That Deales In The World Needes Foure Seeves.

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.

Slander Is A Shipwrack By A Dry Tempest.

Citties Are Taken By The Eares.

Saint Luke Was A Saint And A Physitian, Yet Is Dead.

Light Burdens, Long Borne, Grow Heavy.

True Beauty Dwells On High: Ours Is A Flame But Borrowed Thence To Light Us Thither. Beauty And Beauteous Words Should Go Together.

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

Love Makes One Fitt For Any Work.

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.

Reckon Right, And February Hath One And Thirty Daies.

The Horse That Drawes After Him His Halter, Is Not Altogether Escaped.

Hee That Is Throwne Would Ever Wrestle.

Storms Make Oaks Take Deeper Root.

You Must Lose A Fly To Catch A Trout.

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

A Lean Compromise Is Better Than A Fat Lawsuit.

Hee That Marries For Wealth Sells His Liberty.

Hee That Looseth His Due, Gets Not Thankes.

Where There Is No Honour, There Is No Griefe.

A Hatt Is Not Made For One Shower.

Knowledge Is No Burden.

This World Is Nothing Except It Tend To Another.

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

The Child Saies Nothing, But What It Heard By The Fire.

A Gentle Heart Is Tied With An Easy Thread.

Gaming, Women, And Wine, While They Laugh They Make Men Pine.

He That Sends A Foole Expects One.

Buy At A Faire, But Sell At Home. [buy At A Fair, But Sell At Home.]

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

Good Words Quench More Then A Bucket Of Water.

True Beauty Lives On High. Ours Is But A Flame Borrowed Thence.

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.

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

Frenzy, Heresie, And Jealovsie, Seldome Cured.

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

When One Is On Horsebacke Hee Knowes All Things.

He That Is Fallen Cannot Helpe Him That Is Downe. [he That Is Fallen Cannot Help Him That Is Down.]

Persons Unmask Their Evilest Qualities When They Do Quarrel.

Woe To The House Where There Is No Chiding.

Who Doth His Owne Businesse, Foules Not His Hands.

Better A Bare Foote Then None.

He That Lives Not Well One Yeare, Sorrowes Seven After. [he That Lives Not Well One Year Sorrows Seven Years After.]

To Whirle The Eyes Too Much Shewes A Kites Braine.

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

He That Endures Is Not Overcome.

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

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

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

The Lion Is Not So Fierce As They Paint Him.

Help Thyself, And God Will Help Thee.

Many Things Are Lost For Want Of Asking.

There Come Nought Out Of The Sacke But What Was There.

Two Ill Meales Make The Third A Glutton.

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

One Mouth Doth Nothing Without Another.

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

A Jade Eates As Much As A Good Horse.

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.

It's A Bold Mouse That Nestles In The Catts Eare.

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

He Carries Well, To Whom It Waighes Not. [he Carries Well, To Whomit Weighs Not.]

He That Tells A Secret Is Anothers Servant. [he That Tells A Secret Is Another's Servant.]

A Piece Of A Churchyard Fits Everybody.

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

Service Without Reward Is Punishment.

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

Weening Is Not Measure.

Hee That Goes Barefoot, Must Not Plant Thornes.

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

Hee Stands Not Surely, That Never Slips.

Were There No Hearers, There Would Be No Backbiters.

God Complaines Not, But Doth What Is Fitting.

The Vertue Of A Coward Is Suspition.

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

Power Seldome Grows Old At Court.

Hee That Tells His Wife Newes Is But Newly Married.

Litle Stickes Kindle The Fire; Great Ones Put It Out.

Three Can Hold Their Peace, If Two Be Away.

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

All Keyes Hang Not On One Girdle.

Women Laugh When They Can, And Weepe When They Will.

Who Praiseth Saint Peter, Doth Not Blame Saint Paul.

Great Deservers Grow Intolerable Presumers.

A Morning Sunne, And A Wine-bred Child, And A Latin-bred Woman, Seldome End Well.

A Dead Bee Maketh No Hony.

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

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.

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

He That Will Not Have Peace, God Gives Him Warre. [he That Will Not Have Peace, God Gives Him War.]

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