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Good Horses Make Short Miles.

God Heales, And The Physitian Hath The Thankes.

In Cloths Cheap Handsomeness, Doth Bear The Bell.

Who Paies The Physitian, Does The Cure.

Be What Thou Wouldst Seeme To Be.

Hee That Makes A Thing Too Fine, Breakes It.

None Is Offended But By Himselfe.

No Sooner Is A Temple Built To God But The Devill Builds A Chappell Hard By.

A Feather In Hand Is Better Then A Bird In The Ayre.

How Wide Is All This Long Pretense! There Is In Love A Sweetness Ready Penned, Copy Out Only That, And Save Expense.

Hee That Would Bee Well Old, Must Bee Old Betimes.

Be Useful Where Thou Livest.

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

Great Almes-giving Lessens No Mans Living.

There Were No Ill Language, If It Were Not Ill Taken.

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

There's No Such Conquering Weapon As The Necessity Of Conquering.

I Had Rather Aske Of My Sire Browne Bread, Then Borrow Of My Neighbour White.

Better Suffer Ill, Then Doe Ill. [better Suffer Ill, Than Do Ill.]

There Needs A Long Time To Know The Worlds Pulse.

He That Feares Leaves, Let Him Not Goe Into The Wood.

Hee That Eats The Hard Shall Eate The Ripe.

He That Sowes Trusts In God.

In A Leopard The Spotts Are Not Observed.

The Morning Sunne Never Lasts A Day.

The Chiefe Boxe Of Health Is Time.

There Are More Physitians In Health Then Drunkards.

Empty Chambers Make Foolish Maides.

Fine Words Dresse Ill Deedes.

When Thou Dost Tell Another's Jest, Therein Omit The Oaths, Which True Wit Cannot Need; Pick Out Of Tales The Mirth, But Not The Sin.

Better A Barefoot Than None.

Great Trees Are Good For Nothing But Shade.

They Talke Of Christmas So Long, That It Comes.

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.

Hee That Burnes His House Warmes Himselfe For Once.

Shew Me A Lyer, And I'le Shew Thee A Theefe.

God Sends Cold According To Clothes.

A Bad Dog Never Sees The Wolfe.

The Soule Needs Few Things, The Body Many.

An Idle Head Is A Boxe For The Winde.

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

You Must Lose A Fly To Catch A Trout.

A Wise Man Needes Not Blush For Changing His Purpose.

Modesty Sets Off One Newly Come To Honour.

One Enemy Is Too Much.

To Him That Will, Waies Are Not Wanting.

Too Much Taking Heede Is Losse. [too Much Taking Heed Is Loss.]

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

Although It Raine, Throw Not Away Thy Watering Pot.

More Have Repented Speech Then Silence. [more Have Repented Speech Than Silence.]

Promising Is The Eve Of Giving.

Only A Sweet And Virtuous Soul, Like Seasoned Timber, Never Gives.

War Makes Thieves And Peace Hangs Them.

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

The Fox Knowes Much, But More He That Catcheth Him.

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

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.]

An Oxe Is Taken By The Horns, And A Man By The Tongue.

The Perswasion Of The Fortunate Swaies The Doubtfull.

He That Staies Does The Businesse.

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.

Count Not Fowre Except You Have Them In A Wallett.

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

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

He That Riseth First, Is First Drest.

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

There Would Be No Great Ones, If There Were No Little Ones.

Old Men Go To Death, Death Comes To Young Men.

Perversnes Makes One Squint Ey'd.

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.

At Dinner My Man Appeares.

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

Civill Wars Of France Made A Million Of Atheists, And 30000 Witches.

Every One Stretcheth His Legges According To His Coverlet. [every One Stretches His Legs According To His Coverlet.]

It's An Ill Councell That Hath No Escape.

A Good Judge Conceives Quickly, Judges Slowly.

Vertue And A Trade Are The Best Portion For Children.

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

Had You The World On Your Chesse-bord, You Could Not Fill All To Your Mind.

He That Lies With The Dogs, Riseth With Fleas.

Vnder Water, Famine; Under Snow, Bread.

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

Never Had Ill Workeman Good Tooles.

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

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

Fooles Give To Please All But Their Owne.

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

It Is Good To Have Some Friends Both In Heaven And Hell.

He That Once Deceives Is Ever Suspected.

There Is More Talke Then Trouble.

Let All Live As They Would Die.

Persons Unmask Their Evilest Qualities When They Do Quarrel.

We Live In An Age That Hath More Need Of Good Example Than Precepts.

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

Pardon All But Thy Selfe. [pardon All But Thyself.]

Though The Fox Run, The Chicken Hath Wings.

A Poore Mans Cow Dies A Rich Mans Child.

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

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?

Who Hath No Hast In His Businesse, Mountaines To Him Seeme Valleys.

They That Are Booted Are Not Alwaies Ready.

If The Mother Had Not Beene In The Oven, Shee Had Never Sought Her Daughter There.

Presse A Stick, And It Seemes A Youth.

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

It Is Part Of A Poor Spirit To Undervalue Himself And Blush.

A Dwarf On A Giant's Shoulder, Sees Further Of The Two.

Love Bade Me Welcome, But My Soul Drew Back.

Wee Leave More To Do When Wee Dye, Then Wee Have Done.

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

He That Studies His Content, Wants It.

Good And Quickly Seldom Meet.

Honour Without Profit Is A Ring On The Finger.

With Customes Wee Live Well, But Lawes Undoe Us.

Faire Is Not Faire, But That Which Pleaseth.

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

Good Words Quench More Then A Bucket Of Water.

The First And Last Frosts Are The Worst.

He Cannot Be Vertuous That Is Not Rigorous.

The Lion Is Not So Fierce As They Paint Him.

An Ill Deede Cannot Bring Honour.

To Live Peaceably With All Breedes Good Blood.

A Good Digestion Turneth All To Health.

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

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

Bee Not A Baker, If Your Head Be Of Butter.

To Weepe For Joy Is A Kinde Of Manna.

Hee Stands Not Surely, That Never Slips.

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

Chuse A Horse Made, And A Wife To Make.

Forbeare Not Sowing Because Of Birds.

When Once Thy Foot Enters The Church, Be Bare. God Is More There Than Thou: For Thou Art There Only By His Permission. Then Beware, That Leads From Earth To Heaven.

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

The Best Mirror Is An Old Friend.

Better To Be Blinde, Then To See Ill.

A Mountaine And A River Are Good Neighbours.

All Are Not Merry That Dance Lightly.

Pleasing Ware Is Half Sold.

Rivers Neede A Spring.

Shee Spins Well That Breedes Her Children.

Disgraces Are Like Cherries, One Drawes Another. [disgraces Are Like Cherries, One Draws Another.]

Faire Words Makes Mee Looke To My Purse.

Whose House Is Of Glass, Must Not Throw Stones At Another.

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

Ill Ware Is Never Cheape. [ill Ware Is Never Cheap.]

Stay A Little And News Will Find You.

Speak Not Of My Debts Unless You Mean To Pay Them.

Farre Shooting Never Kild Bird.

He That Makes A Good War Makes A Good Peace.

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

The Science Of The Modern School ... Is In Effect ... The Acquisition Of Imperfectly Analyzed Misstatements About Entrails, Elements, And Electricity.

He That Passeth A Winters Day Escapes An Enemy.

Love Makes One Fitt For Any Work.

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

Go Not For Every Grief To The Physician, Nor For Every Quarrell To The Lawyer, Nor For Every Thirst To The Pot.

The Yeare Doth Nothing Else But Open And Shut.

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

Love Is The True Price Of Love.

Princes Are Venison In Heaven.

Pension Never Inriched Young Man. [pension Never Enriched A Young Man.]

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing Secure Unlesse Suspected.

A Jade Eates As Much As A Good Horse.

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

Mend Your Clothes And You May Hold Out This Year.

The Wrongs Of A Husband Or Master Are Not Reproached.

Praise None Too Much, For All Are Fickle.

The Command Of Custome Is Great.

When The Tree Is Fallen, All Goe With Their Hatchet. [when The Tree Is Fallen, All Go With Their Hatchet.]

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?

Every Thing Is Of Use To A Houskeeper.

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

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

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

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.

Power Seldome Grows Old At Court.

The Divell Never Assailes A Man, Except He Find Him Either Void Of Knowledge, Or Of The Fear Of God.

Chuse None For Thy Servant Who Have Served Thy Betters.

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.

In Great Pedigrees There Are Governours And Chandlers.

Estate In Two Parishes Is Bread In Two Wallets.

The Wolfe Knowes, What The Ill Beast Thinkes.

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

He Thinkes Not Well, That Thinkes Not Againe.

Assaile Who Will, The Valiant Attends.

Prosperity Lets Goe The Bridle.

An Old Friend Is A New House.

Wine Makes All Sorts Of Creatures At Table.

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

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

An Ill Labourer Quarrells With His Tooles.

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

Health Without Money Is Halfe An Ague.

All Are Presumed Good Till They Are Found At Fault.

To Buy Deare Is Not Bounty.

Hee That Looseth His Due, Gets Not Thankes.

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

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