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¶ Since I can not govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues of others?

Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour

If you do what you should not, you must hear what you would not.

¶ Hast thou virtue?-acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

¶ If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty

¶ If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead · and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

¶ Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

¶ The creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

¶ The noblest question in the world is, What good may I do in it?

Is there anything men take more pains about than to make themselves unhappy?

¶ Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty (or libertinism) ››

¶ Who has deceived thee so oft as thyself?

¶ A great talker may be no fool, but he is one that relies on him.

A pair of good ears will drain dry a hundred tongues.

¶ Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service, and therefore more generally chosen.

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¶ When Prosperity was well mounted, she let go the Bridle, and soon came tumbling out of the saddle.

¶ Ignorance leads men into a party, and Shame keeps them from getting out again.

¶ When out of Favor, none knew thee; when in, thou dost not know thyself.

Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven; 't is Scandalum Magnatum.

¶ He that builds before he counts the cost, acts foolishly; and he that counts before he builds, finds that he did not count wisely.

¶ Haste makes waste.

¶ Severity is often clemency; Clemency severity.

Success has ruined many a man.

¶ All things are easy to industry; all things difficult to sloth Ꮽ Ꮽ

¶ Eat to live, and not live to eat.

¶ What one relishes, nourishes.

¶ Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.

In success be moderate.

¶ Many dishes, many diseases. Many medicines, few cures.

¶ God works wonders now and then; Behold! a lawyer, an honest man.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

¶ The old man has given all to his son. O fool! to undress thyself before thou art going to bed.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues: Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

¶ Kings and bears often worry their keepers.

¶ He does not possess wealth: it possesses him.

¶ He that can not obey, can not command.

¶ Fools multiply folly.

¶ Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

¶ Beauty and folly are old companions.

¶ Tell me my faults and mend your own.

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¶ The royal crown cures not the Headache.

¶ Samson with his strong body had a weak head, or he would not have laid it in a harlot's lap.

¶ Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

¶ When a friend deals with a friend, let the bargain be clear and well-penned, that they may continue friends to the end.

¶An honest man will receive neither money nor praise that is not his due.

¶ Trouble springs from idleness; toil from ease.

¶ Saying and doing have quarreled and parted.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed

¶ A wise man will desire no more than what he can get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully and leave contentedly

¶ Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but that To

morrow never comes.

¶ Never praise nor dispraise, till seven Christmases be

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¶ Learn of the skilful: he that teaches himself hath a fool for a master.

¶ Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.

Love and be loved.

¶ Lying rides upon debt's back.

¶ They who have nothing to be troubled at, will be troubled at nothing.