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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.
Life is not measured by the time we live.
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.
Do well and right and let the world sink.
All things require skill but an appetite.
A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
Words and feathers the wind carries away.
At the games end we shall see who gaines.
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
Great businesses turne on a little pinne.
Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
One sound blow will serve to undo us all.
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
Praise none too much, for all are fickle.
Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.
The March sunne raises but dissolves not.
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
We must love, as looking one day to hate.
Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.
Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.
I was a piano player before I was a poet.
A human life is a schooling for eternity.
I hate artists who are not of their time.
Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.
God will forgive me; that's his business.
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Faith is stronger than so-called reality.
There is a miracle in every new beginning
Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Don't just put it off and think about it!
That best of blessings, a contented mind.
As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.