312 quotes
Little pitchers have wide ears.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Let all live as they would die.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
A great ship asks deep waters.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Prosperity lets go the bridle.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance,
Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly
That feeds on dung is colored thereby.
The Temple (1633)
Most things move th' under-jaw; the Crocodile not.
Most things sleep lying; th' Elephant leans or stands.
The Temple (1633)
Can there be any day but this,
Though many sunnes to shine endeavour?
We count three hundred, but we misse:
There is but one, and that one ever.
648. Show me a lyer, and I'l shew thee a theefe.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Throw away thy rod;
Though man frailties hath,
Thou art God:
Throw away thy wrath.
The Temple (1633)
I gave to Hope a watch of mine; but he
An Anchor gave to me.
The Temple (1633)
He that seekes trouble never misses.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Thy rope of sands,
Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee
Good cable, to enforce and draw,
And be thy law,
While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
The Temple (1633)
971. Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Throw away thy rod,
Throw away thy wrath:
O my God,
Take the gentle path.
The Temple (1633)
Whether I fly with angels, fall with dust,
Thy hands made both, and I am there;
Thy power and love, my love and trust
Make one place ev'ry where.
The Temple (1633)
What one day gives us another takes away from us.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Light burthens long borne growe heavie.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
If the old dog barke he gives counsell.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
The honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)