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Lying rides upon debt's back.
Observe all men, thyself most.
Let thy vices die before thee.
The used key is always bright.
Men and Melons are hard to know.
Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.
The cat in gloves catches no mice.
Handle your tools without mittens.
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Great Modesty often hides great Merit.
Little rogues easily become great ones.
None are deceived but they that confide.
Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
There is none deceived but he that trusts.
Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.
Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.
He that would travel much, should eat little.
Do not do that which you would not have known.
Remember that a good example is the best sermon.
Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.
The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.
He that best understands the world, least likes it
If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.
As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.
He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.
Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.
He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?