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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world.
[Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

Love is the life of friendship.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise

It's no use crying over spilt milk
What's done, is done.

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

Little sins are pioneers of hell.

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

After rain comes fair weather.

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

We learn by teaching.

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Words and works eat not at one table.