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'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.  
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.  
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.  
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!  
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.  
A good friend is my nearest relation.  
A good garden may have some weeds.  
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.  
A man is not good or bad for one action.  
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.  
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.  
Abused patience turns to fury.  
Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.  
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.  
All things are difficult before they are easy.  
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this...  
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with...  
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.  
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.  
Bad excuses are worse than none.  
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.  
Better a tooth out than always aching.  
Better be alone than in bad company.  
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.  
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year aft...  
Care and diligence bring luck.  
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.  
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.  
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.  
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.  
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some f...  
Despair gives courage to a coward.  
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.  
Eaten bread is forgotten.  
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.  
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that t...  
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily...  
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em ...  
Great hopes make great men.  
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbl...  
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.  
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.  
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.  
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.  
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pas...   Forgiveness
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.  
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.  
He that hopes no good fears no ill.  
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.  
If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged; they are ...  
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.  
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.  
In fair Weather prepare for foul.  
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.  
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.  
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but ...  
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lo...  
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in th...  
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest deg...  
Light (God's eldest daughter) is a principal beauty in building.  
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.  
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of ...  
Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all wi...  
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.  
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.  
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till h...  
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.  
Old foxes want no tutors.  
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.  
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.  
Poor men's reasons are not heard.  
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.  
Pride will spit in pride's face.  
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will ce...  
Scalded cats fear even cold water.  
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.  
Suspect all extraneous and groundless civilities.  
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.  
The more wit the less courage.  
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.  
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds...  
They that buy an office must sell something.  
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, ...  
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best bin...  
Today is yesterday's pupil.  
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse  
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what ...  
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.  
We have all forgot more than we remember.  
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.  
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.  
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil him...  
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.