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Who goes to bed and does not pray,
Maketh two nights to every day.
The Temple (1633)
Chase brave employment with a naked sword
Throughout the world.
The Temple (1633)
The consciousness of duty performed gives us music at midnight.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
To speak of a usurer at the table mars the wine.
Jacula Prudentum (1640)
That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Words and feathers the wind carries away.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Goe not for every griefe to the physitian, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
My soul's a shepherd too; a flock it feeds
Of thoughts, and words, and deeds.
The Temple (1633)
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust
That measures all our time; which also shall
Be crumbled into dust.
The Temple (1633)
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'Tis angels' music.
The Temple (1633)
Who goes to bed, and doth not pray,
Maketh two nights to every day!
The Temple (1633)