“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.”
“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.”
“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
“A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.”
“Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
“Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.”
“A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.”
“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”
“All doors open to courtesy.”
“It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.”
“It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.”
“A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!”
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”
“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.”
“A good garden may have some weeds.”
“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”
“Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.”
“A good horse should be seldom spurred.”
“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”
“If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.”
“Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.”
“In fair weather prepare for foul.”
“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”
“An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.”
“The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.”
“Care and diligence bring luck.”
“Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.”
“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”
“Great hopes make great men.”
“Change of weather is the discourse of fools.”
“Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.”
“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”
“There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.”
“Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.”
“One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.”
“Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.”
“Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.”
“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.”
“Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.”
“Abused patience turns to fury.”
“A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.”
“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”
“Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.”
“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”
“Better a tooth out than always aching.”
“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”
“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.”
“The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.”
“Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.”
“If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.”
“With foxes we must play the fox.”
“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
“First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.”
“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.”
“Despair gives courage to a coward.”
“Better be alone than in bad company.”
“He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.”
“’Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.”
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
“A fox should not be on the jury at a goose’s trial.”
“Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.”
“Better one’s House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.”
“’Tis not every question that deserves an answer.”
“Pride will spit in pride’s face.”
“He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.”
“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.”
“Bad excuses are worse than none.”
“Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.”
“He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.”
“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.”
“Today is yesterday’s pupil.”
“If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.”
“Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.”
“He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.”
“’Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.”
“Old foxes want no tutors.”
“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”
“With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.”
“A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.”
“Eaten bread is forgotten.”
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”
“Scalded cats fear even cold water.”
“He that hopes no good fears no ill.”
“Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.”
“Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.”
“There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.”
“A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”
“A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.”
“The more wit the less courage.”
“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.”
“We have all forgot more than we remember.”
“A good friend is my nearest relation.”
“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”
“The fool wanders, a wise man travels.”
“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”
“A man is not good or bad for one action.”
“Poor men’s reasons are not heard.”
“He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.”
“Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.”
“Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.”
“He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.”
“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.”
“Great is the difference betwixt a man’s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.”
“Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear.”
“A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.”
“He that travels much knows much.”
“A book that is shut is but a block.”
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