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Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

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.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

Stay a little and news will find you.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

Poverty is no sinne.

Poverty is the mother of health.

Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preaches patience.

Prosperity lets goe the bridle.

To build castles in Spain.

God sends cold according to Cloathes.

To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure.

Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.