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<\/a><\/p>\n1734
\nYou cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns,
\nNor enjoy fair wife without danger of horns.
\nWithout justice, courage is weak.
\nWould you live with ease,
\nDo what you ought, not what you please.
\nBlame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
\nTake this remark from Richard poor and lame,
\nWhate’er’s begun in anger ends in shame.
\nWhat one relishes, nourishes.
\nNo man e’er was glorious, who was not laborious.
\nAll things are easy to Industry,
\nAll things difficult to Sloth.
\nIf you ride a Horse, sit close and tight,
\nIf you ride a Man, sit easy and light.
\nDon’t think to hunt two hares with one dog.
\nSee Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732), #2782.
\nFools multiply folly.
\nBeauty & Folly are old companions.
\nBetter slip with foot than tongue.
\nHope of gain,
\nlessens pain.
\nWedlock, as old Men note, hath likened been,
\nUnto a publick Crowd or common Rout;
\nWhere those that are without would fain get in,
\nAnd those that are within would fain get out.
\nGrief often treads upon the Heels of Pleasure,
\nMarry\u2019d in Haste, we oft repent at Leisure;
\nSome by Experience find these Words misplac\u2019d,
\nMarry\u2019d at Leisure, they repent in Haste.
\nWhere there’s Marriage without Love,
\nthere will be Love without Marriage.
\nBe neither silly, nor cunning, but wise.
\nNeither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long
\nafter they begin to parly.
\nWho pleasure gives,
\nShall joy receive.
\nAll things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful.
\nWould you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.
\nHappy’s the Wooing that’s not long a doing.
\nJack Little sow’d little, & little he’ll reap.
\nDo good to thy Friend to keep him,
\nto thy enemy to gain him.
\nA good Man is seldom uneasy, an ill one never easie.
\nTeach your child to hold his tongue,
\nhe’ll learn fast enough to speak.
\nDon’t value a man for the Quality he is of,
\nbut for the Qualities he possesses.
\nAs Charms are nonsense, Nonsense is a Charm.
\nHe that cannot obey, cannot command.
\nAn innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.
\nHe that is rich need not live sparingly,
\nand he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
\nIf you wou’d be reveng’d of your enemy, govern your self.
\nA wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.
\nLaws like to Cobwebs catch small Flies,
\nGreat one break thro’ before your eyes.
\nAn Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
\nSee Thomas Fuller (physician), Gnomologia (1732), #2916.
\nDrink Water, Put the Money in your Pocket,
\nand leave the Dry-bellyach in the Punchbowl.
\nWhen ’tis fair be sure to take your Great coat with you.
\nHe does not possess Wealth, it possesses him.
\nSee Thomas Fuller (physician), Gnomologia (1732), #1125.
\nNecessity has no Law; I know some Attorneys of the name.
\nOnions can make, ev’n Heirs and Widows weep.
\nStrange, that he who lives by Shifts,
\ncan seldom shift himself.
\nAs sore places meet most rubs, proud folks
\nmeet most affronts.
\nThe thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch,
\nis to save all the Money they can touch.
\nHe that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner.
\nA learned blockhead is a greater blockhead
\nthan an ignorant one.
\nMarry your Son when you will,
\nbut your Daughter when you can.
\nAvarice and Happiness never saw each other,
\nhow then shou’d they become acquainted.
\nIf you woul’d have Guests merry with your cheer,
\nBe so your self, or so at least appear.
\nReader, farewel, all Happiness attend thee:
\nMay each New Year better and richer find thee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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