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Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee
'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.'
Let none say, I will not drinke water.
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
Half the world knows not how the other half lies.
Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.
One foote is better then two crutches.
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
He that endures is not overcome.
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.
The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.
He begins to die, that quits his desires.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
When war begins, then hell openeth.
Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
We are fooles one to another.
Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
[Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]
Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.
Who hath no head, needes no heart.
A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
[Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]
Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.
While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines.
[While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.
Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.
All the Armes of England will not arme feare.
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.
Where there is peace, God is.
Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
Learn weeping, and thou shalt gain laughing.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
The smith and his penny both are black.
His bark is worse than his bite.
A white wall is the paper of a foole.
Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
We must love, as looking one day to hate.
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing ... a grateful heart!
Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.
Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.
[Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]
A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.
A good prayer is master of anothers purse.
Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.
[Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.]
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
[A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]
An ill deed cannot bring honor.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?
Conversation makes one what he is.
Warre is deaths feast.
Pleasing ware is half sold.
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
He that lends, gives.
Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.
Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.
Ty it well, and let it goe.
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.
[Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.
Thinke of ease, but worke on.
He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.
Pardon all but thy selfe.
[Pardon all but thyself.]
Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.
Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.
Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.
Two ill meales make the third a glutton.
Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.
A woman and a glasse are ever in danger.
[A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
Would you know what money is, go borrow some.
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.
We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.
Send not a Catt for Lard.
It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.
