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“533. Help thyselfe, and God will helpe thee.”

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“374. All things require skill but an appetite.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“141. Love your neighbor, yet pull not downe your hedge.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“105. Deceive not thy physitian, confessor, nor lawyer.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“639. Emptie vessels sound most.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“[ An idle youth, a needy age. ]”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“611. Time is the rider that breakes youth.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“1023. An old cat sports not with her prey.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“413. He that once deceives is ever suspected.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“878. It's more paine to doe nothing then something.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“940. The great would have none great, and the little all little.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“370. Would you know what mony is, go borrow some.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“429. Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat; and hee that hath one sonne makes him a foole.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“391. To a crazy ship all windes are contrary.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.”

George Herbert

Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 364

“619. You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.”

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“682. One father is more than a hundred schoole-masters.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“495. For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.”

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Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“169. God heales, and the physitian hath the thankes.”

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.”

George Herbert

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