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There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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He that is drunken . . .
Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill
Did with his liquor slide into his veins.
Topic: Intemperance
Source: The Temple--The Church Porch (st. 6)
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde,
Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure
Short of His can and body; must I find
A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
Topic: Intemperance
Source: The Temple--The Church Porch (st. 7)
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Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance,
Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly
That feeds on dung is colored thereby.
Topic: Jesting
Source: Temple--Church Porch (st. 39)
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Art thou a magistrate? then be severe:
If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,
Redeem truth from his jaws: if a soldier,
Chase brave employments with a naked sword
Throughout the world. Fool not, for all may have
If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.
Topic: Judges
Source: The Church Porch (st. 15)
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Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
Topic: Laughter
Source: The Temple--Church Porch (st. 39)
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In doing we learn.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Source: None
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Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Topic: Lying
Source: Church Porch
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Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
Topic: Lying
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.
[Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]
Topic: Lying
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
Topic: Memory
Source: None
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust
That measures all our time; which also shall
Be crumbled into dust.
Topic: Mortality
Source: The Temple--Church Monuments
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Stay a little and news will find you.
Topic: News
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Topic: Oceans
Source: None
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
Topic: Patience
Source: The Church Porch (st. 72)
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Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Topic: Patience
Source: The Church Porch (st. 72)
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To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
[To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
Topic: Philanthropy
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
Topic: Possession
Source: The Church--The Size
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Poverty is no sinne.
[Poverty is no sin.]
Topic: Poverty
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Poverty is the mother of health.
Topic: Poverty
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
The worst speak something good. If all want sense,
God takes a text, and preaches patience.
Topic: Preaching
Source: The Temple--The Church Porch (st. 72)
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Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
[Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
Topic: Prosperity
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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To build castles in Spain.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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The longest Day hath an Eueninge.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: from a version of his published proverbs
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years
after.
[Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years
after.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: from a version of his published proverbs
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His bark is worse than his bite.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Country Parson (ch. XXIX)
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A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A blustering night, a faire day.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A child correct behind and not before.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that
despiseth it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A City that parlies is half gotten.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.
[A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A curst Cow hath short hornes.
[A curst cow has short horns.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A disarmed peace is weake.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A drunkards purse is a bottle.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A faire death honours the whole life.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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