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Page 112 - If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
Page 106 - Revenge we can take on •*, our Enemies. Fair words make me look to my Purfe. The fhorteft Anfwer is doing the thing. He who would have what he hath not, -fliould do what he doth not. He who hath Horns in his Bofom, needs not put them upon his Head. . . • Good and Quickly feldom meet. God' is at the end when we think he is fartheft ofE He who contemplates hath a Day without Night.
Page 113 - Ignorance is better than pride with greater knowledge. The charitable man gives out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
Page 28 - If you would have a thing kept fecret, never tell it to any one ; and if you would not have a thing known of you, never do it. Whatever you are going to do or fay, think well kill what may DC the conlequcnce of it. They are always felling wit to others who have le:ift or
Page 112 - Tis a fmall family that hath neither a thief nor an harlot in it. To give and to keep there is need of wit. A man never furfeits of too much honefty. Honour nnd eafe are fcldom bedfellows.
Page 110 - Gold goes in at any gate except that of heaven. Knaves and fools divide the world. No great lofs but may bring fome little profit. When poverty comes in at the door, love leaps out at the window.
Page 37 - Do not all that you can do ; spend not all that you have ; believe not all that you hear; and tell not all you knovr.
Page 68 - Keep yourself from the anger of a great man, from the tumult of a mob, from a man of ill fame, from a widow that has been thrice married, from a wind that comes in at a hole, and from a reconciled enemy.
Page 32 - An honest man has half as much more brains as he needs ; a knave hath not half as much.
Page 7 - Wise men have their mouth in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth.