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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
English Proverbs (1659)
Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
Familiar Letters (1645)
Nor is this lower world but a huge inn,
And men the rambling passengers.
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
The dog who hunts foulest, hits at most faults.
English Proverbs (1659)
He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.
Familiar Letters (1645)
To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.
English Proverbs (1659)
A Woman and a Cherry paint themselves for their hurt, viz. the one to be tempted, the other to be eaten.
Paroimiographia Proverbs (1659)
Some hold translations not unlike to be
The wrong side of a Turkey tapestry.
Familiar Letters (1645)
The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
English Proverbs (1659)
Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
There's fence against all things except death.
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates are secretaries of Nature.
Familiar Letters (1645)
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
English Proverbs (1659)
Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)