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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Thomas Fuller.
Topic: Hope
Source: None
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A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all
actions shooting at his own praise or profit.
Topic: Hypocrisy
Source: Holy and Profane States--The Hypocrite (maxim I, bk. V, ch. VIII)
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Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built
many stories high.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: Andronicus (sec. VI, par. 18, 1)
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Thus God's children are immorall whiles their
Father hath anything for them to do on earth.
Topic: Immortality
Source: Church History (bk. II, century VIII, 18, On Bede's Death)
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Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee,
But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun
Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee
A name which before thee no mortal hath won.
Topic: Immortality
Source: Church History (bk. II, century VIII, 18, On Bede's Death)
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He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.
Topic: Injury
Source: None
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Virtue is the only true nobility.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.
Topic: Invention
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Fancy)
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Topic: Invention
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Fancy)
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No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken.
Topic: Jesting
Source: Holy and Profane States (maxim VIII)
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Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.
Topic: Jesting
Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim II)
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He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar
by the bargain.
Topic: Jesting
Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim VII)
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It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring
considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.
Topic: Labor
Source: Pisgah--Sight of Palestine (ed. 1650, p. 128)
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less
competition there.
Topic: Labor
Source: Pisgah--Sight of Palestine (ed. 1650, p. 128)
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Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
Topic: Law
Source: None
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Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by
getting a great library.
Topic: Libraries
Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Books (maxim 1)
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Light (God's eldest daughter!)
Topic: Light
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Building)
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He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.
Topic: London
Source: Gnomologia
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Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot
shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous
curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the
appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
Topic: Memory
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Memory)
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Topic: Memory
Source: None
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
Topic: Miser
Source: None
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.
Topic: Mob
Source: None
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.
Topic: Monument
Source: None
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit,
and a rich monument is one embroidered.
Topic: Monuments
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Tombs)
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To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no
less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.
Topic: Mortality
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. IV, The Court Lady)
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Topic: Negativity
Source: None
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Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Topic: Passion
Source: None
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A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Topic: Prejudice
Source: None
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An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Gnomologia
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All those must such delights expect to share,
Who for their friend think fit to take a bear.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Gnomologia
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Out of mind, when out of view.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Gnomologia
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Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Gnomologia
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When yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Gnomologia
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Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Gnomologia
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Much matter decocted into few words.
Topic: Proverbs (General)
Source: Definition of a proverb--Worthies (ch. II)
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Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Topic: Repentance
Source: None
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Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.
Topic: Resignation
Source: None
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Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!
Topic: Ridicule
Source: None
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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint;
that boasts of it, is a devil.
Topic: Sin
Source: Holy State--Of Self-Praising
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
[Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
Topic: Sin
Source: Holy State--Of Self-Praising
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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Topic: Sin
Source: None
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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Topic: Travel
Source: None
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