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Grasp Not At Much, For Fear Thou Losest All.

One Stroke Fells Not An Oke.

Halfe The World Knowes Not How The Other Halfe Lies.

Fine Words Dresse Ill Deedes.

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

Let Thy Mind Still Be Bent, Still Plotting, Where, And When, And How Thy Business May Be Done. Slackness Breeds Worms; But The Sure Traveller, Though He Alights Sometimes Still Goeth On.

Councell Breakes Not The Head.

Who Would Doe Ill Ne're Wants Occasion.

Money, Thou Bane Of Bliss, And Source Of Woe, Whence Cam'st Thou, That Thou Art So Fresh And Fine? I Know Thy Parentage Is Base And Low: Man Found Thee Poor And Dirty In A Mine.

A White Wall Is The Paper Of A Foole.

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

To Seek These Things Is Lost Labour; Geese In An Oyle Pot, Fat Hogs Among Jews, And Wine In A Fishing Net.

God Gives His Wrath By Weight, And Without Weight His Mercy.

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

A Dead Bee Maketh No Hony.

He That Knows Nothing Doubts Nothing.

In Time Comes He Whom God Sends.

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

Honor And Profit Lie Not All In One Sack.

If You Walk On Snow You Cannot Hide Your Footprints.

Praise None Too Much, For All Are Fickle.

In Cloths Cheap Handsomeness, Doth Bear The Bell.

War Makes Thieves And Peace Hangs Them.

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

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.

Love Your Neighbor, Yet Pull Not Down Your Hedge.

No Alchymy To Saving.

Hee That Looseth His Due, Gets Not Thankes.

He That Riseth First, Is First Drest.

Criticks Are Like Brushers Of Noblemens Cloaths.

Little Journeys And Good Cost Bring Safe Home.

Talking Payes No Toll.

The Absent Partie Is Still Faultie.

A Good Heart Cannot Lye

Call Me Not An Olive, Till Thou See Me Gathered.

Knowledge Is Folly Unless Grace Guide It.

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

Hee That Doth What Hee Will, Doth Not What He Ought.

Destiny Is Always Dark.

To Bee Beloved Is Above All Bargaines.

The Book Of Books, The Storehouse And Magazine Of Life And Comfort, The Holy Scriptures.

Let Not Him That Feares Feathers Come Among Wild-foule.

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

Hee That Hath Patience Hath Fatt Thrushes For A Farthing.

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

The Dainties Of The Great Are The Teares Of The Poore.

An Ill Deede Cannot Bring Honour.

Was Ever Grief Like Mine?

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

It Costs More To Doe Ill Then To Doe Well. [it Costs More To Do Ill Than To Do Well.]

In A Long Journey Straw Waighs.

The Little Cannot Bee Great, Unlesse He Devoure Many. [the Little Cannot Be Great Unless He Devour Many.]

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

Castles Are Forrests Of Stones.

Much Spends The Traveller, More Then The Abider.

A Civil Guest Will No More Talk All, Than Eat All The Feast.

If All Fooles Had Babies, Wee Should Want Fuell.

Gossips Are Frogs, They Drinke And Talke.

Great Business Turns On A Little Pin.

When God Will Punish, Hee Will First Take Away The Understanding.

Lord! Who Hath Praise Enough?

Goods Are Theirs That Enjoy Them.

Light Burdens, Long Borne, Grow Heavy.

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?

You Cannot Know Wine By The Barrell.

To The Counsell Of Fooles A Woodden Bell.

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

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

The Fatt Man Knoweth Not, What The Leane Thinketh.

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

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

A Diligent Scholer, And The Master's Paid. [a Diligent Scholar, And The Master's Paid.]

God Comes To See Without A Bell.

All That Shakes Falles Not.

Dry Feet, Warme Head, Bring Safe To Bed.

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

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

When God At First Made Man, Having A Glass Of Blessings Standing By, 'let Us,'said He,'pour On Him All We Can: Let The World's Riches, Which Disperse' D Lie, Contract Into A Span'.

Never Had Ill Workeman Good Tooles.

Warre Is Deaths Feast.

Good Words Quench More Then A Bucket Of Water.

Hee Wrongs Not An Old Man That Steales His Supper From Him.

Cities Seldome Change Religion Only.

Though A Lie Be Well Drest, It Is Ever Overcome. [though A Lie Be Well Dressed, It Is Ever Overcome.]

The Noise Is Greater Then The Nuts.

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

All Keyes Hang Not On One Girdle.

Vnder Water, Famine; Under Snow, Bread.

For Want Of A Naile The Shoe Is Lost, For Want Of A Shoe The Horse Is Lost, For Want Of A Horse The Rider Is Lost.

Though Old And Wise, Yet Still Advise.

A Sleepy Master Makes His Servant A Lowt.

You Cannot Flea A Stone.

No Hair So Small But Hath His Shadow.

Storms Make The Oak Grow Deeper Roots.

'it's This Accursed Science,' I Cried. 'it's The Very Devil. The Mediaeval Priests And Persecutors Were Right, And The Moderns Are All Wrong. You Tamper With It-and It Offers You Gifts. And Directly You Take Them It Knocks You To Pieces In Some Unexpected Way.'

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

Hunger Makes Dinners, Pastime Suppers.

Woe To The House Where There Is No Chiding.

Marry A Widdow Before She Leave Mourning.

He That Sowes Trusts In God.

Great Almes-giving Lessens No Mans Living.

Of A New Prince, New Bondage.

He That Thinks Amiss, Concludes Worse.

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

All Things Require Skill But An Appetite.

While The Discreet Advise, The Foole Doth His Busines. [while The Discreet Advise, The Fool Doth His Busines.]

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

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

Knowledge Is But Folly Unless It Is Guided By Grace.

It's More Paine To Doe Nothing Then Something.

He Lives Unsafely, That Lookes Too Neere On Things.

Neither Praise Nor Dispraise Thy Selfe, Thy Actins Serve The Turne. [neither Praise Nor Dispraise Thyself; Thy Actions Serve The Turn.]

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

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

The Mouse That Hath But One Hole Is Quickly Taken.

A Scepter Is One Thing, And A Ladle Another.

Ah My Deare God! Though I Am Clean Forgot, Let Me Not Love Thee, If I Love Thee Not.

One Paire Of Eares Drawes Dry An Hundred Tongues.

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

An Old Friend Is A New House.

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

The Sundaies Of Man's Life, Thredded Together On Time's String, Make Bracelets To Adorn The Wife Of The Eternal, Glorious King. On Sunday Heaven's Gates Stand Ope; Blessings Are Plentiful And Rife. More Plentiful Than Hope.

A Little Given Seasonably Excuses A Great Gift.

Great Deservers Grow Intolerable Presumers.

It Is Good To Hold The Asse By The Bridle.

Hell Is Full Of Good Meanings And Wishings.

Be What Thou Wouldst Seeme To Be.

Although The Sun Shine, Leave Not Thy Cloake At Home.

Hee Stands Not Surely, That Never Slips.

No Profit To Honour, No Honour To Religion.

He That Lies With The Dogs, Riseth With Fleas.

To Play At Chesse When The House Is On Fire.

Man Is All Symmetry, Full Of Proportions, One Limb To Another.

God Oft Hath A Great Share In A Little House.

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

Faire Language Grates Not The Tongue.

He That Makes A Good War Makes A Good Peace.

A Bad Workman Quarrels With His Tools.

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

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

The Fox, When Hee Cannot Reach The Grapes, Saies They Are Not Ripe.

Before You Make A Friend, Eate A Bushell Of Salt With Him.

Ther's No Great Banquet But Some Fares Ill.

Ready Mony Is A Ready Medicine.

Do Well And Right And Let The World Sink.

Promising Is The Eve Of Giving.

To Review Ones Store Is To Mow Twice.

Fine Dressing Is A Foule House Swept Before The Doores.

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

Good And Quickly Seldom Meet.

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

Cloath Thee In War, Arme Thee In Peace.

Lawyers Houses Are Built On The Heads Of Fooles.

There Is No Body Will Go To Hell For Company.

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

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

The Frier Preached Against Stealing, And Had A Goose In His Sleeve.

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

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.

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

Craft Against Craft Makes No Living.

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

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

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

We Must Recoile A Little, To The End We May Leap The Better.

Farre Shooting Never Kild Bird.

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

The Bit That One Eates, No Friend Makes.

The Slothful Is The Servant Of The Counters.

All Truths Are Not To Be Told.

The Chicken Is The Country's, But The City Eats It.

No Naked Man Is Sought After To Be Rifled.

That Which Sufficeth Is Not Little.

He That Once Deceives Is Ever Suspected.

Wouldst Thou Both Eat Thy Cake And Have It?

Surely If Each One Saw Another's Heart, There Would Be No Commerce, No Sale Or Bargain Pass: All Would Disperse And Live Apart.

He That Hopes Not For Good, Feares Not Evill.

The Crow Bewailes The Sheepe, And Then Eates It.

There Is More Talke Then Trouble.

Who Hath No Head, Needes No Heart.

Were There No Fooles, Badd Ware Would Not Passe.

To Live Peaceably With All Breedes Good Blood.

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

The Soule Needs Few Things, The Body Many.

A Drunkards Purse Is A Bottle.

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

The Cow Knows Not What Her Tail Is Worth Till She Has Lost It.

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

Honour Without Profit Is A Ring On The Finger.

All Feete Tread Not In One Shoe.

He Pares His Apple That Will Cleanly Feed.

Though The Fox Run, The Chicken Hath Wings.

That's The Best Gowne That Goes Up And Downe The House.

Lend Only What You Can Afford To Lose.

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

He That Hath Lands Hath Quarrells.

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

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

Who Will Sell The Cow, Must Say The Word.

A Wise Man Cares Not For What He Cannot Have.

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