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Great businesses turne on a little pinne.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]
To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.
Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
We must love, as looking one day to hate.
One sound blow will serve to undo us all.
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
Praise none too much, for all are fickle.
When God will, no winde but brings raine.
Words and feathers the wind carries away.
Do well and right and let the world sink.
Gifts enter every where without a wimble.
Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.
Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.
Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?
If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.
None knows the weight of another's burden.
Better never begin than never make an end.
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
Though punishment be slow, still it comes.
The soule needs few things, the body many.
It is good to hold the asse by the bridle.
An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.
Hee that is a master must serve (another).
It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
Many friends in generall, one in speciall.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
No naked man is sought after to be rifled.
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
A good prayer is master of anothers purse.
Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.
None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.
A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.
Shee spins well that breedes her children.
Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.
Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.
Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.
Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.