“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
“Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.”
“The eyes have one language everywhere.”
“He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.”
“Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.”
“Good words are worth much, and cost little.”
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
“Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.”
“The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.”
“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.”
“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.”
“He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.”
“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.”
“Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.”
“Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.”
“Living well is the best revenge.”
“If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.”
“None knows the weight of another’s burden.”
“There is great force hidden in a gentle command.”
“Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.”
“The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.”
“The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.”
“Punishment is lame, but it comes.”
“You must lose a fly to catch a trout.”
“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
“The offender never pardons.”
“A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.”
“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”
“One sword keeps another in the sheath.”
“Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”
“Better never begin than never make an end.”
“It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.”
“Love and a cough cannot be hid.”
“War makes thieves and peace hangs them.”
“There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.”
“Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.”
“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.”
“There would be no great men if there were no little ones.”
“Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.”
“The shortest answer is doing.”
“The resolved mind hath no cares.”
“Never was a miser a brave soul.”
“Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.”
“One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.”
“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”
“He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.”
“A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.”
“He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.”
“Be thrifty, but not covetous.”
“Spend not on hopes.”
“Night is the mother of counsels.”
“Sometimes the best gain is to lose.”
“He hath no leisure who useth it not.”
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