bad who takes himself to be a good man. He is far from a good man who trives not to grow better. Keep good men company, and fall not out with the bad. He who throws away his eftate with his hands, goes afterwards to pick it up on his feet. 'Tis a bad houfe that hath not an old man in it. To crow well and fcrape ill is the devil's trade. Be ready with your hat, but flow with your purfe. A burthen which one chufes is not felt. The dearer such a thing is, the better pennyworth for me. Suppers kill more than the greatest doctor ever cured. All the wit in the world is not in one head. Let us do what we can and ought, and let God do his pleasure. 'Tis better to be condemned by the college of phyficians than by one judge, Skill and affurance are an invincible couple. The fool kneels to the diftaff. Knowing is worth nothing, unless we do the good we know. A man is half known when you fee him, when you hear him fpeak you know him all out. Write down the advice of him who loves you, tho' you like it not at prefent. Be flow to give advice, ready to do any fervice, Both anger and hafte hinder good counfel. Give neither counfel nor falt till you are afked for it. The fool never thinks higher than the top of his houfe. A courtier is a flave in a golden chain. A little kitchen makes a large houfe. Have money, and you will find kindred enough. He that lends his money hath a double lofs. Of money, wit, and virtue, believe one-fourth part of what you hear men fay. Money is his fervant who knows how to use it as he fhould, his mafter who doth not. 'Tis better to give one fhilling than to lend twenty. Wife diftruft is the parent of fecurity. Mercy or goodnefs alone makes us like to God. So much only is mine, as I either ufe myself or give for God's fake. He who is about to fpeak evil of another, let him firft well confider himself. Speak not of me unless you know me well; think of yourself ere aught of me you tell. One day of a wife man is worth the whole life of a fool. What you give fhines fill, what you eat fmells ill next day. Afking cofts no great matter. A woman that loves to be at the window is like a bunch of grapes in the highway. A woman and a glafs are never out of danger. A womaa and a cherry are painted for their own harm. The beft furniture in the houfe is a virtuous woman. The first wife is matrimony, the fecond company, the third herefy. A doctor and a clown

know more than a doctor alone. Hard upon hard never makes a good wall. The example of good men is visible philofophy. One ill example spoils many good laws. Every thing may be, except a ditch without a bank. He who throws a ftone againft God, it falls upon his own head. He who plays me one trick fhall not play me a fecond. Do what you ought, and let what will come on it. By making a fault you may learn to do better. The firft faults are theirs who commit them, all the following are his who doth not punish them. He who would be ill ferved, let him keep good ftore of fervants. To do good still make no delay; for life and time flide fait away. A little time will ferve to do ill. He who would have trouble in this life, let him get either a fhip or a wife. He who will take no pains, will never build a house three ftories high. The best of the game is, to do one's bufinefs and talk little of it. The Italian is wife before he undertakes a thing, the German while he is doing it, and the Frenchman when it is over. In profperity we need moderation, in adverfity patience. Profperous men facrifice not, i. e. they forget God. Great profperity and modefty feldom go together. Women, wine, and horfes, are ware men are often deceived in. Give your friend a fig, and your enemy a peach. He who hath no children doth not know what love means. He who fpins hath one shirt, he who spins not hath two. He who confiders the end, reftrains all evil inclinations. He who hath the longest fword is always thought to be in the right. There lies no appeal from the decifion of fortune. Lucky men need no counfel. Three things only are well done in hatte; flying from the plague, efcaping quarrels, and catching fleas. 'Tis better it should be faid, Here he ran away, than Here he was flain. The fword from Heaven above falls not down in hafte. The best thing in gaming is, that it be but little used. Play, women, and wine, make a man laugh till he dies of it. Play or gaming hath the devil at the bottom. The devil goes fhares in gaming. He who doth not rife early never does a good day's work. He who hath good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing. If young men had wit, and old men ftrength, enough, every thing might be well done. He who will have no judge but himself, condemns himself. Learning is folly unless a good judgment hath the mangement of it. Every man 3 U3

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Speaking without thinking is fhooting without taking aim. He doth not lofe his labour who counts every word he fpeaks. One mild word quenches more heat than a whole bucket of water. Yes, good words to put off your rotten apples. Give every man good words, but keep your purfe-ftrings clofe. Fine words will not keep a cat from starving. He that hath no patience, hath nothing at all. No patience, no true wifdom. Make one bargain with other men, but make four with yourfelf. There is no fool to a learned fool. The first degree of folly is to think one's felf wife; the next to tell others fo; the third to defpife all counfel. If wife men play the fool, they do it with a vengeance. One fool in one houfe is enough in all confcience. He is not a thorough wife man who cannot play the fool on a juft occafion. A wife man doth that at the first which a fool muft do at the laft. Men's years and their faults are always more than they are willing to own. Men's fins and their debts are more than they take them to be. Punishment, though lame, overtakes the finner at the last. He confiders ill, that confiders not on both fides. Think much and often, fpeak little, and write lefs. Confider well, Who you are, What you do, Whence you came, and Whither you are to go. Keep your thoughts to yourself, let your mien be free and open. Drink wine with pears, and water after figs. When the pear is ripe, it must fall of courfe. He that parts with what he ought, lofes nothing by the fhift. Forgive every man's faults except your own. To forgive injuries is a noble and God-like revenge. 'Tis a mark of great proficiency, to bear eafily the failings of other men. Fond love of a man's felf fhews that he doth not know himself. That which a man likes well is half done. He who is ufed to do kindneffes, always finds them when he Bands in need. A wife lawyer never goes to law himfelf. A fluggard takes an hun dred fteps because he would not take one in due time. When you are all agreed upon the time, quoth the curate, I will make it rain. I will do what I can, and a little lefs, that I may hold out the better. Truft fome few, but beware of all men. He who knows but little prefently outs with it. He that doth not mind fmall things will never get a great deal. John Dolittle was the fon of Good-wife Spin-little. To know how to be content with little, is

not a morfel for a fool's mouth. That is never to be called little, which a man thinks to be enough. Oftwo cowards, he hath the better who firit finds the other out. The worst pig often gets the best pear. The devil turns his back when he finds the door fhut against him. The wifer man yields to him who is more than his match. He who thinks he can do moft, is most mistaken. The wife difcourfes of a poor man go for nothing. Poor folks have neither any kindred nor any friends. Good preachers give their hearers fruit, not flowers. Woe to thofe preachers who liften not to themfelves. He who quakes for cold, either wants money to buy him cloaths, or wit to put them on. Poverty is a good hated by all men. He that would have a thing done quickly and well, mult do it himself. He who knows moft is the least profuming or confident. 'Tis more noble to make yourself great, than to be born fo. The beginning of an amour (or gallantry) is fear, the middle fin, and the end forrow or repentance. The beginning only of a thing is hard, and cofts dear. A fair promife catches the fool. He who is bound for another goes in at the wide end of the horn, and mult come out at the narrow if he can. Promifing is not with design to give, but to pleafe fools. Give no great credit to a great promifer. Profperity is the worst enemy men ufually have. Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glafs. A proverb is the child of experience. He that makes no reckoning of a farthing, will not be worth an halfpenny. Avoid carefully the firft ill or mischief, for that will breed an hundred more. Reafon governs the wife man, and a cudgel the fool. Suffering is the mother of fools, reafon of wife men. If you would be as happy as any king, confider not the few that are before, but the

many that come behind you. Our religion and our language we fuck in, with our milk. Love, knavery, and neceffity, make men good orators. There is no fence againft what comes from Heaven. Good hufbandry is the first step towards riches, A flock once gotten, wealth grows up of its own accord. Wealth hides many a great fault. Good ware was never dear, nor a mifs ever worth the money the cofts. The fool's eftate is the first spent. Wealth is his that enjoys it, and the world is his who fcrambles for it. A father with very great wealth, and a fon with no virtue at

all. Little wealth, and little care and trouble. The Roman conquers by fitting ftill at home. Between robbing and reftoring, men commonly get thirty in the hundred. He is learned enough who knows how to live well. The more a man knows, the lefs credulous he is. There is no harm in defiring to be thought wife by others, but a great deal in a man's thinking himself to be fo. Bare wages never made a fervant rich. Lofing much breeds bad blood. Health without any money is half fickness. When a man is tumbling down, every faint lends a hand. He that unfeasonably plays the wife man is a fool. He that pretends too much to wifdom is counted a fool. A wife man never fets his heart upon what he cannot have. A lewd batchelor makes a jealous hufband. That crown is well spent which faves you ten. Love can do much, but fcorn or difdain can do more. If you would have a thing kept fecret, never tell it to any one; and if you would not have a thing known of you, never do it. Whatever you are going to do or fay, think well firft what may be the confequence of it. They are always felling wit to others who have leaft of it for themfelves. He that gains time gains a great point. Every ditch is full of after-wit. A little wit will ferve a fortunate man. The favour of the court is like fair weather in winter. Neither take for a fervant him who you must entreat, nor a kinfman, nor a friend, if you would have a good one. A man never lofes by doing good offices to others. He that would be well ferved, must know when to change his fervants. Ignorance and profperity make them bold and confident. He who employs one fervant in any busineffes, hath him all there; who employs two, hath half a fervant; who three, hath never a one. Either a civil grant, or a civil denial. When you have any business with a man give him title enough. The covetous man is the bailiff, not the mafter, of his own eftate. Trouble not your head about the weather, or the government. Like with like looks well, and lafts long. All worldly joy is but a fhort-lived dream. That is a curfed pleasure that makes a man a fool. The foldier is well paid for doing mifchief. A foldier, fire, and water, foon make room for themfelves. A confidering, careful man is half a conjurer. A man would not be alone even in paradife. One nap finds out, or draws on another. Have good

luck, and you may lie in bed. He that will maintain every thing must have his fword always ready drawn. That houfe is in an ill cafe where the distaff commands the fword. One fword keeps another in the fcabbard. He that speaks ill of other men, burns his own tongue. He that is moft liberal where he fhould be fo, is the best husband. He is gainer enough who gives over a vain hope. A mighty hope 1S a mighty cheat. Hope is a pleasant kind of deceit. A man cannot leave his experience or wifdom to his heirs. Fools learn to live at their own coft, the wife at other men's. He is mafter of the whole world who hath no value for it. He who faith Woman, faith Wo to man. One enemy is too much for a man in a great poft, and an hundred friends are too few. Let us enjoy the prefent, we fhall have trouble enough hereafter. Men toil and take pains in order to live easily at laft. He that takes no care of himself, must not expect it from others. Induftry makes a gallant man, and breaks ill fortune. Study, like a staff of cotton, beats without noise. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are a tempeft and hail-florm. If pride were a deadly difeafe, how many would be now in their graves! He who cannot hold his peace will never lie at ease. A fool will be always talking, right or wrong. In filence there is many a good morfel. hold your peace, or you will make me fall afleep. The table, a fecret thief, fends its mafter to the hofpital. Begin your web, and God will fupply you with thread. Too much fear is an enemy to good deliberation. As foon as ever God hath a church built for him, the devil gets a tabernacle fet up for himself. Time is a file that wears, and makes no noife. Nothing is fo hard to bear well as profperity. Patience, time, and money, fet every thing to rights. The true art of making gold is to have a good eftate, and to spend but little of it. Abate two-thirds of all the reports you hear. A fair face, or a fine head, and very little brains in it. He who lives wickedly lives always in fear. A beautiful face is a pleafing traitor. If three know it, all the world will know it too. Many have too much, but nobody hath enough. An honest man hath half as much more brains as he needs, a knave hath not half enough. A wife man changes his mind when there is reafon for it. From hearing, comes wisdom; and from speaking repentance.

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is an evil defired by all men, and youth an advantage which no young man underflands. He that would have a good revenge, let him leave it to God. Would you be revenged on your enemy? live as you ought, and you have done it to purpofe. He that will revenge every affront, either falls from a good poft, or never gets up to it. Truth is an inhabitant of heaven. That which feems probable is the greatest enemy to the truth. A thousand probabilities cannot make one truth. 'Tis no great pains to fpeak the truth. That is most true which we leaft care to hear. Truth hath the plague in his houfe (i. e. is carefully avoided). A wife man will not tell fuch a truth as every one will take for a lie. Long voyages occafion great lies. The world makes men drunk as much as wine doth. Wine and youth are fire upon fire. Enrich your younger age with virtue's lore. 'Tis virtue's picture which we find in books. Virtue must be our trade and fludy, not our chance. We fhall have a house without a fault in the next world. Tell me what life you lead, and I will tell you how you fhall die. He is in a low form who never thinks beyond this fhort life. Vices are learned without a teacher. Wicked men are dead whilst they live. He is rich who defires nothing more. To recover a bad man is a double kindness or virtue. Who are you for? I am for him whom I get moft by. He who eats bnt of one dil never wants a phyfician. He hath lived to ill purpose who cannot hope to live after his death. Live as they did of old; fpeak as men do now. The mob is a terrible monfter. Hell is very full of good meanings and intentions. He only is well kept whom God keeps. Break the legs of an evil cuftom. Tyrant custom makes a flave of reafon. Experience is the father, and memory the mother of wisdom. He who doeth every thing he has a mind to do, doth not what he should do. He who fays all that he has a mind to fay, hears what he hath no mind to hear. That city thrives beft where virtue is moft efteemed and rewarded. He cannot go wrong whom virtue guides. The fword kills many, but wine many more.

'Tis truth which makes the man angry. He who tells all the truth he knows, muft lie in the streets. Oil and truth will get uppermoft at the last. A probable story is the best weapon of calumny. He counts very unfkilfully who leaves God out of his reckoning. No

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