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“[ Hee that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolfe. ]”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“678. More have repented speech then silence.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”

The Temple (1633), The Church Porch

“[ Silke doth quench the fire in the kitchin. ]”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“475. Fine words dresse ill deedes.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.”

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

“86. He that lives well is learned enough.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“465. In the kingdome of blind men the one-ey'd is king.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“942. Every mile is two in winter.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“123. To a boyling pot flies come not.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“[ There is a remedy for everything, could men find it. ]”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“583. Thursday come and the week's gone.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“296. The child saies nothing but what it heard by the fire.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“158. The eye and religion can beare no jesting.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“61. Ill ware is never cheape.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“375. All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“[ When war begins then hell openeth. ]”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“[ Some had rather lose their friend then their jest. ]”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)