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“406. He that blames would buy.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“334. When you are an anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“104. Leave jesting while it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“816. Women laugh when they can and weepe when they will.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“460. The resolved minde hath no cares.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“916. The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“319. Little sticks kindle the fire, great ones put it out.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“[ Your thoughts close and your countenance loose. ]”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?”

The Size, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“67. Never had ill workman good tooles.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“294. A man's discontent is his worst evill.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“966. With customes wee live well, but lawes undoe us.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“897. There are more physitians in health then drunkards.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“557. The offender never pardons.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“222. One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“508. He that tells a secret is another's servant.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“763. Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“376. Little pitchers have wide eares.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
If when the soul unto the lines accords.”

The Temple (1633), A True Hymn