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“[ The war is not don so long as my enemy lives. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.”
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“170. Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“20. You cannot know wine by the barrell.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“300. He will burne his house to warme his hands.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“473. Hope is the poor man's bread.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“136. Old wine and an old friend are good provisions.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Do well and right, and let the world sink.”
Country Parson, chapter xxix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“756. Every sin brings its punishment with it.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“577. Folly growes without watering.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“533. Help thyselfe, and God will helpe thee.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“374. All things require skill but an appetite.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“611. Time is the rider that breakes youth.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“1023. An old cat sports not with her prey.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“413. He that once deceives is ever suspected.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“878. It's more paine to doe nothing then something.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
