¶ No man ever was glorious who was not laborious.

¶ Keep your mouth wet, feet dry.

¶ He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

¶ Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.

The things which hurt, instruct.

¶ The

eye of a master will do more work than his hand.

¶ Courage would fight, but Discretion won't let him.

¶ A soft tongue may strike hard.

¶ We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

A poor example is the best sermon.

¶ He that won't be counseled, can't be helped.

¶ Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

¶ Many a man thinks he is buying Pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

¶ He that can bear a reproof, and mend by it, if he is not wise, is in a fair way of being so.

¶ 'Tis hard (but glorious) to be poor and honest; An empty sack can hardly stand upright; but if it does, 't is a stout one!

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

¶ Work as if you were to live one hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

¶ Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, supped with infamy.

He that would catch fish must venture his bait.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

¶ The way to be safe is never to be secure.

He that has a trade has an office of profit and honor.

THE wit of conversation consists more in finding it

in others, than in showing a great deal yourself. He who goes out of your company, pleased with his own facetiousness and ingenuity, will the sooner come into it again. Most men had rather please than admire you, and seek less to be instructed and diverted than approved and applauded, and it is certainly the most delicate sort of pleasure, to please another.

¶ But that sort of wit, which employs itself insolently in criticizing and censuring the words and sentiments of

others in conversation, is absolute folly; for it answers none of the ends of conversation. He who uses it neither improves others, is improved himself, nor pleases any one.

¶ Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

¶ Necessity never made a good bargain.

¶ If pride leads the van, beggary brings up the rear.

¶ Sloth and silence are a fool's virtues.

¶ Approve not of him who commends all you say.

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit into the cable.

¶ Eyes and priests bear no jests.

¶ He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

¶ Forewarned, forearmed.

¶ Avarice and happiness never saw each other; how then should they become acquainted?

Necessity has no law; I know some attorneys of the

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¶ To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember that you can not depend upon yourself.

One mend-fault is worth two find-faults; but one findfault is better than two make-faults.

¶ A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

¶ He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

¶ He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

¶ Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ¶ God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

¶ If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few Ꮽ Ꮽ

¶ Receive before you write, but write before you pay.

¶ He that lives well is learned enough.

¶ Poverty, poetry and new titles of honor make men ridiculous

¶ He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

¶ The rotten apple spoils his companion.

¶ He that sells upon trust loses many friends, and always wants money.

¶ Lovers, travelers and poets will give money to be heard.

¶ He that speaks much is much mistaken.

¶ Reading makes a full man-meditation a profound man —discourse a clear man.

¶ If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best friend.

¶ None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

¶ Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.

¶ Never entreat a servant to dwell with thee.

¶ Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

¶ Time is an herb that cures all diseases.

Fly pleasures, and they 'll follow you.

¶ The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.