Fine dreffing is a foul houfe fwept before the doors. Difcontent is a man's worst evil. He who lives well fees afar off. Love is not to be found in the market. My houfe, my houfe, though thou art fmall, Thou art to me the Efcurial. He who feeks trouble never miffeth it. Never was ftrumpet fair in a wife man's eye. He that hath little is the lefs dirty. row. Woe be to the houfe where there is no chiding. The greatest ftep is that out of doors. Poverty is the mother of health. Wealth, like rheum, falls on the weakeft parts. If all fools wore white caps, we should Icok like a flock of geefe. Living well is the best revenge we can take on our enemies. Fair words make me look to my purfe. The shortest anfwer is doing the thing. He who would have what he hath not, fhould do what he doth not. He who hath horns in his bofom, needs not put them upon his head. Good and quickly feldom meet. God is at the end when we think he is fartheft off. He who contemplates hath a day without night. Time is the rider that breaks youth. one. Talk much, and err much. The perfuafion of the fortunate fways the doubtful. True praise takes root, and fpreads. Happy is the body which is bleft with a mind not needing. Foolish tongues talk by the dozen. Shew a good man his error, and he turns it into a virtue; a bad man doubles his fault. When either fide grows warm in arguing, the wifeft man gives over first. Wife men with pity do behold Fools worship mules that carry gold. In the husband wifdom, in the wife tleness. gen A wife man cares not much for what he Cannot have. Pardon others but not thyfelf. feem. Great bufineffes turn on a little pin. He that will not have peace, God gives him war. None is fo wife but the fool overtakes him. That is the best gown that goes most up and down the house. Silks and fattins put out the fire in the kitchen. The first dish pleafeth all. God's mill grinds flow, but fure. actions ferve the turn. He who fears death lives not. He who pitieth another thinks on him. felf. Night is the mother of counfels. The faulty flands always on his guard. He goes not out of his way who goes to a good inn. It is an ill air where we gain nothing. Every one hath a fool in his fleeve. Too much taking heed is fometimes lofs. 'Tis easier to build two chimnies than to maintain one. He hath no leifure who ufeth it not. it is to live. Lawyers houfes are built on the heads of fools. Among good men two fuffice. The best bred have the best portion. To live peaceably with all breeds good blood. He who hath the charge of fouls tranfports them not in bundles. Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lofe. When a lackey comes to hell, the devil locks the gates. He that tells his wife news is but newly married. He who will make a door of gold, must knock in a nail every day. If the brain fows not corn, it plants thistles. A woman conceals what she knows not. Some evils are cured by contempt. God deals his wrath by weight, but without weight his mercy. Follow not truth too near at the heels, left it dash out your teeth. Say to pleasure, gentle Eve, I will have none of your apple. Marry your daughters betimes, left they marry themselves. Every man's cenfure is ufually firft moulded in his own nature. Sufpicion is the virtue of a coward. Stay a while, that we may make an end the fooner. Let us ride fair and foftly that we may get home the fooner. Debtors are liers. Knowledge (or cunning) is no burthen. A penny ipared is twice got. If the mother had never been in the oven, fhe would not have looked for her daughter there. The body is fooner well dreffed than the foul. Every one is a master, and a fervant. No profit to honour, no honour to virtue or religion. Every fin brings its punishment along with it. The trueft wealth is contentment with a little. A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife. Marry in hafte, and repent at leifure. Sir John Barley-Corn is the ftrongest knight. Like blood, like good, and like age, Make the happiest marriage. Every afs thinks himself worthy to fland with the king's horfes. A good beginning makes a good ending. One ounce of difcretion, or of wisdom, is worth two pounds of wit. The devil is good, or kind, when he is pleased. A fair face is half a portion. To forget a wrong is the best revenge. Manners make the man. Man doth what he can, God doth what he pleafes. Gold goes in at any gate except that of heaven. Knaves and fools divide the world. No great lofs but may bring fome little profit. When poverty comes in at the door, love leaps out at the window. That fuit is best that best fits me. If I had revenged every wrong, I had not worn my fkirts fo long. Self-love is a mote in every man's eye. That which is well done is twice done Ufe foft words and hard arguments. There is no coward to an ill conscience. He who makes other men afraid of his wit, had need be afraid of their memories. Riches are but the baggage of virtue. He who defers his charities till his death, is rather liberal of another man's than of The devil divides the world between his own. atheifm and fuperftition. Good husbandry is good divinity. A fool, if he faith he will have a crab, he will not have an apple. A wife man hath more ballaft than fail. Great men's promifes, courtiers' oaths, and dead men's fhoes, a man may look for, but not truft to. Be wife on this fide heaven. The devil tempts others, an idle man tempts the devil. 3 U Good Good locks buy nothing in the market. He who will be his own mafter often hath a fool for his fcholar. That man is well bought who costs you but a compliment. The greatest king muft at last go to bed with a fhovel or fpade. He only truly lives who lives in peace. If wife men never erred, it would go hard with the fool. Great virtue feldom defcends. One wife (in marriage) and two happy. Almfgiving never made any man poor, nor robbery rich, nor profperity wife. A fcol and his money are foon parted. Fear of hell is the true valour of a chriftian. For ill do well, then fear not hell. a ove it. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth. A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay, One pair of heels is fometimes worth two pair of hands. 'Tis good fleeping in a whole skin. A fool's bolt is foon fhot. All is well that ends well. He who hath an ill name is half-hanged. A friend's frown is better than a fool's finile. The cafieft work and way is, To beware. If the beft man's faults were written in his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. A man may be great by chance; but never wife, or good, without taking pains for it. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. 'Tis a small family that hath neither a thief nor an harlot in it. To give and to keep there is need of wit. A man never furfeits of too much honesty. Honour and ease are feldom bedfellows. Thofe hufbands are in heaven whole wives do not chide. He can want nothing who hath God for his friend. Young men's knocks old men feel. He who is poor when he is married fhall be rich when he is buried. Of all tame beafts, I hate fluts. a man's flore. That is my good that doth me good. An idle brain is the devil's fhop. God fend us fomewhat of our own when rich men go to dinner. Let your purfe ftill be your mafter. Young men think old men fools; but old men know that young men are fools. Wit once bought is worth twice taught. A wife head makes a clofe mouth. All foolish fancies are bought much too dear. Women's and children's wishes are the aim and happiness of the more weak men. Ignorance is better than pride with greater knowledge. The charitable man gives out at the door, and God puts in at the window. Every man is a fool where he hath not confidered or thought. He who angers others is not himself at eafe. He dies like a beat who hath done no good while he lived. Heaven is not to be had by men's bare ly withing for it. Patch and long fit, build and foon flit. One hour's fleep before midnight is worth two hours fleep after it. Wranglers never want words. Idle lazy folks have moft labour. Knavery may ferve a turn, but honefty is beft at the long-run. A quick landlord makes a careful tenant I will keep no more cats than what will catch mice. Reprove others, but correct thyself. Planting Planting of trees is England's old thrift. It is more painful to do nothing than fomething. Any thing for a quiet life. 'Tis great folly to want when we have it, and when we have it not too. Fly pleasure, and it will follow thee. God's Providence is the fureft and beft inheritance. That is not good language which all understand not. Much better lofe a jeft than a friend. He that hath fome land must have fome labour. Shew me a lier, and I will fhew you a thief. We must wink at fmall faults. Keep your fhop and your fhop will keep you. Every one should sweep before his own door. Much coin ufually much care. Good take-heed doth always fpeed. He who gets doth much, but he who keeps doth more. A pound of gold is better than an ounce of honour. We think lawyers to be wife men, and they know us to be fools. Eaten bread is foon forgotten. Confeffion of a fault makes half amends. Every man can tame a fhrew but he who hath her. 'Tis better to die poor than to live poor. Plain dealing is a jewel; but he who ufeth it will die a beggar. Honour bought is temporal fimony. Live, and let live, i.e. be a kind landlord. Children are certain cares, but very uncertain comforts. Giving begets love, lending ufually lef fens it. He is the wife, who is the honest man. When you fee your friend, truft to your will or humour. felf. Let my friend tell my tale. Mention not a rope in the houfe of one whofe father was hanged. Speak the truth and fhame the devil. God help the fool, quoth Pedly. (An Idec:) Lend, and lofe my money; fo play fools. Early to go to bed, and then early to rife, makes men more holy, more healthy, wealthy, and wife. Anger dies foon with a wife and good man. He who will not be counfelled, cannot be helped. God hath provided no remedy for wilful obftinacy. All vice infatuates and corrupts the judgment. He who converfes with nobody, knows nothing. There is no fool to the old fool. A good wife makes a good husband. 'Tis much better to be thought a fool than to be a knave. One fool makes many. Wit is a fine thing in a wife man's hand. Speak not of my debts except you mean to pay them. Words inftruct, but examples perfuade effectually. He who lives in hopes dies a fool. Live fo as you do mean to die. All earthly joys are empty bubbles, and do make men boys. Better unborn than untaught. If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains: if well, the pains do fade, the joy remains. Always refufe the advice which paffion a man's own reafon over his paflions and follies. Religion hath true lafting joys; weigh all, and fo If any thing have more, or fuch, let heaven go. Whatever good thou doft, give God the praise; Who both the power and will firft gave to thee. § 152. Old Italian Proverbs. He who ferves God hath the best mafter in the world. Where God is there nothing is wanting. No man is greater in truth than he is in God's esteem. He hath a good judgment who doth not rely on his own. Wealth is not his who gets it, but his who enjoys it. He who converfes with nobody, is either a brute or an angel. Go not over the water where you cannot fee the bottom. He who lives diforderly one year, doth not enjoy himfelf for five years after. Friendships are cheap, when they are to be bought with pulling off your hat. Speak well of your friend, of your enemy neither well nor ill. The friendship of a great man is a lion at the next door. The money you refufe will never do you good. A beggar's wallet is a mile to the bottom. I once had, is a poor man. There are a great many affes without long ears. An iron anvil fhould have a hammer of feathers. He keeps his road well enough who gets rid of bad company. You are in debt, and run in farther; if you are not a lier yet, you will be one. The beft throw upon the dice is to throw them away. 'Tis horribly dangerous to fleep near the gates of hell. He who thinks to cheat another, cheats himself mott. Giving is going a fishing. Too much profperity makes molt men fools. Dead men open the eyes of the living. No man's head aches while he comforts another. Bold and fhamelefs men are mafters of half the world. Every one hath enough to do to govern himself well. He who is an afs, and takes himself to be a flag, when he comes to leap the ditch finds his mittake. Praife doth a wife man good, but a fool harm. No fooner is a law made but an evafion of it is found out. He who gives fair words, feeds you with an empty fpoon. Three things coft dear; the careffes of a dog, the love of a mifs, and the invitation of an holt. Hunger never fails of a good cock. A man is valued as he makes himself valuable. Three littles make a man rich on a fudden; little wit, little fhame, and little honefty. He who hath good health is a rich man, and doth not know it. Give a wife man a hint, and he will do the bufinefs well enough. A bad agreement is better than a good law-fuit. The beft watering is that which comes from heaven. When your neighbour's houfe is on fire carry water to your own. Spare diet and no trouble keep a man in good health. He that will have no trouble in this world must not be born in it. The maid is fuch as the is bred, and tow as it is fpun. He that would believe he hath a great many friends, must try but few of them. Love bemires young men, and drowns the old. Once in every ten years every man needs his neighbour. Ariftotle faith, When you can have any good thing take it: and Plato faith, if you do not take it, you are a great coxcomb. From an afs you can get nothing but kicks and ftench. Either fay nothing of the abfent, or speak like a friend. One man forewarned (or apprifed of a thing) is worth two. He is truly happy who can make others happy too. A fair woman without virtue is like palled wine. Tell a woman fhe is wondrous fair, and fhe will foon turn fool. Paint and patches give offence to the husband, hopes to her gallant. He that would be well spoken of himself, must not speak ill of others. He that doth the kindness hath the nobleft pleafure of the two. He who doth a kindnets to a good man, doth a greater to himfelf. A man's hat in his hand never did him harm. One cap or hat more or lefs, and one quire of paper in a year, coft but little, and will make you many friends. He who blames grandees endangers his head, and he who prailes them must tell many a lie. A wife man goes not on board without due provifion. Keep your mouth fhut, and your eyes open. He who will ftop every man's mouth muft have a great deal of meal. Wife mer have their mouth in their hearts, fools their heart in their mouth. Shew not to all the bottom either of your purfe or of your mind. I heard one fay fo, is half a lie. Lies have very fhort legs. One lie draws ten more after it. Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number. He is a good man who is good for himself, but he is good indeed who is fo for others too. When you meet with a virtuous man, draw his picture. He who keeps good men company may very well bear their charges. He begins to grow * bad |
