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“497. Little wealth, little care.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“155. Good words are worth much, and cost little.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“215. Into a mouth shut flies flie not.”

George Herbert

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“200. The hole calls the thiefe.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“138. Well may hee smell fire whose gowne burnes.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“248. Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“621. Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“[ A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. ]”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Be useful where thou livest.”

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The Temple (1633), The Church Porch

“743. God's mill grinds slow but sure.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“307. Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
Makes that and th' action fine.”

George Herbert

Source: The Temple (1633), The Elixir, Lines 17-20

“720. Be what thou wouldst seem to be.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“339. Hee that lies with the dogs riseth with fleas.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“676. A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“719. One sword keepes another in the sheath.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“1. Man proposeth, God disposeth.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“440. Fly the pleasure that bites to-morrow.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)