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Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.
While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.
Old friends are best.
Money makes a man laugh.
Marriage is a desperate thing.
A gallant man is above ill words.
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
No man is the wiser for his learning
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
Never king dropped out of the clouds.
Those that govern most make least noise.
Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
They that govern the most make the least noise.
It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.
There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.
'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.
Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
