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“354. He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“[ The war is not don so long as my enemy lives. ]”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.”

The Temple (1633), The Church Porch

“170. Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“386. The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“305. He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“20. You cannot know wine by the barrell.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“242. The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“300. He will burne his house to warme his hands.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“473. Hope is the poor man's bread.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“523. A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“136. Old wine and an old friend are good provisions.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Do well and right, and let the world sink.”

Country Parson, chapter xxix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“149. Marry your sonne when you will, your daughter when you can.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“677. Dry bread at home is better than rost meate abroad.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“756. Every sin brings its punishment with it.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“714. Comparisons are odious.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“577. Folly growes without watering.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)