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Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.
To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.
When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.
Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.
Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.
Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.
Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
That is not good language which all understand not.
Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.
I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
Pardon all but thy selfe. [Pardon all but thyself.]
When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.
The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.
If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints.