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An inch in missing is as bad as an ell. - Gnomologia [Proverbs] He was born within the sound of Bow-bell. - Gnomologia [London] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. - Gnomologia [Fishing : Proverbs] When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.] - quoted by Gnomologia [Misfortune] Still he fishes that catches one. - Gnomologia (no. 4262) [Fishing] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait. - Gnomologia (no. 4342) [Bait : Fish] Ejaculations are short prayers darted up to God on emergent occasions. - Good Thoughts in Bad Times--Meditations on all Kinds of Prayers (Ejaculations, their Use, V) [Prayer] So a good prayer, though often used, is still fresh and fair in the ears and eyes of Heaven. - Good Thoughts in Bad Times--Meditations on all Kinds of Prayers (XII) [Prayer] Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sicknesse broken body. - Holy and Profane States (bk. I, ch. II) [Death] Light (God's eldest daughter!) - Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Building) [Light] Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure. - Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Fancy) [Invention] They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves, in hope that one will come and cut the halter. - Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Marriage) [Matrimony] Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof. - Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Memory) [Memory] Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues. - Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Moderation) [Moderation] Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered. - Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Tombs) [Monuments] To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. - Holy and Profane States (bk. IV, The Court Lady) [Mortality] He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. - Holy and Profane States (maxim VII, The Good Husband) [Wives] No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken. - Holy and Profane States (maxim VIII) [Jesting] Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. - Holy and Profane States--Anger [Anger] He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency. - Holy and Profane States--Apparel [Apparel] Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady. - Holy and Profane States--Gravity [Soul] Learning hath gained most by those books by which the Printers have lost. - Holy and Profane States--Of Books [Books] Some books are only cursorily to be tasted of. - Holy and Profane States--Of Books [Books] It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library. - Holy and Profane States--Of Books (maxim 1) [Libraries] Hope not for impossibilities. - Holy and Profane States--Of Expecting Preferment (maxim I) [Impossibility] Displaying page 7 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8
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