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244 Small curs are not regarded when they grin; But great men tremble when the lion roars. 22-iii. 1.

245 Affection is not rated from the heart.

12-i. 1.

246 Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

247

All that glisters is not gold,
Gilded tombs do worms infold.

22-ii. 1.

9-ii. 7.

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251

A counterfeit, which, being touch'd, and tried,
Proves valueless.

16-iii. 1.

33-i. 2.

252 The plants look up to heaven, from whence They have their nourishment.

253 To the latter end of a fray, and the beginning

of a feast,

Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. 18-iv.2.

254 Time goes on crutches, till Love have all his

rites.

6-ii. 1.

255 Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

23-v. 6.

256 Kindness, nobler ever than revenge. 10-iv. 3.

257 Do as adversaries do in law,

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

12-i. 2.

26-ii. 3.

258 He'll be physician, that should be the patient.

* Driven out by chiding.

259 We call a nettle, but a nettle; and

The faults of fools, but folly.

28-ii. 1.

260 Things in motion sooner catch the eye,

Than what not stirs.

26-iii. 3.

261 Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

30-i. 3.

262

Coronets are stars,

And, sometimes, falling ones.

25-iv. 1.

Or lose our ventures.

29-iv. 3.

263 We must take the current when it serves,

264 Stick to your journal course: the breach of

custom

Is breach of all.1

31-iv.2.

265 Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks

draw deep.

26-ii. 3.

266 They that have the voice of lions, and the act of hares, are they not monsters?

26-iii. 2.

29-iv. 3.

267 A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

268

Fortune knows,

We scorn her most, when most she offers blows.

30-iii. 9.

269 Thanks, the exchequer of the poor.

17-ii. 3.

270 A stirring dwarf we do allowanceTM give Before a sleeping giant.

26-ii. 3.

271

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy ; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure. 26-ii. 3.

272 One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor.

33-i. 4.

273 Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.

26-i. 2.

1 Keep your daily course uninterrupted; if the stated plan of life is once broken, nothing follows but confusion.

m Approbation.

274 Good words are better than bad strokes.

29-v. 1.

275 In time we hate that which we often fear.

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278 Fortune brings in some boats, that are not

steer'd.

31-iv. 3.

279 Make not your thoughts your prisons.

30-v.2.

280 To such as boasting shew their scars, A mock is due.

26-iv. 5.

281 Love's reason's without reason.

31-iv. 2.

282 Few words to fair faith.

26-iii. 2.

283 Britain's harts die flying, not our men.

31-v. 3.

284 To fear the worst, oft cures the worst.

26-iii. 2.

285 The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed, By those that feel their sharpness.

34-v.3.

286 There is no time so miserable, but a man may be true.

27-iv. 3.

287 Let us be sacrificers, but no butchers.

29-ii. 1.

288 What is aught, but as 'tis valued?

26-ii. 2.

289 Be not peevish" found in great designs.

24-iv. 4.

290

Our stomachs

Will make what's homely, savoury. 31—iii. 6.

291 'Tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar.

n Foolish.

26-iii. 4.

• Blown up with his own bomb.

292 Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

2-iii. 1.

293 Stony limits cannot hold love out.

35-ii. 2.

294 The public body,—doth seldom Play the recanter.

27-v. 2.

295 The labour we delight in, physics pain.

15-ii. 3.

296 He that keeps nor crust nor crum, Weary of all, shall want some.

34-i. 4.

297 Discourse is heavy, fasting.

31-iii. 6.

298 We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring in the winter.o 34—ii. 4.

299 Use every man after his desert, and

'scape whipping?

300

Revenges hunger for that food

Which nature loathes.

who shall

36-ii. 2.

27-v. 5.

301 Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose

That you resolved to effect.

1-iii. 3.

302 Tyranny sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

34-i. 2.

303 When the day serves before black-corner'd night, Find what thou want'st by free and offer'd light. 27-v. 1.

304 Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

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36-v. 1.

25-i. 1.

306 Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, And manage it against despairing thoughts.

2-iii. 1.

307 Inconstancy falls off, ere it begins.

2-v. 4.

308 Nothing can come of nothing.

34-i. 1.

P Prov. vi. 6, and xxx. 25.

309

A solemn air, the best comforter
To an unsettled fancy.

1-v.1.

310

The hearts, of old, gave hands; But our new heraldry is-hands, not hearts.

37-iii. 4.

311 Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

34-i. 4.

312

Security

15-iii. 5.

Is mortal's chiefest enemy.

313 Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate; But certain issue strokes must arbitrate.

15-v. 4.

314 Meat fills knaves, and wine heats fools.

27-i. 1.

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Unless it be to come before their time;
So much they spur their expedition.

2-v. 1.

317 Happy, in that we are not over-happy; On fortune's cap we are not the very button.

36-ii. 2.

318 He that has no house to put his head in, such may rail against great buildings. 27-iii. 4.

319

Serpents, who though they feed

On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed.

33-i. 1.

320 Gripe not at earthly joys.

33-i. 1.

321 Converse with him that is wise, and says little.

34-i. 4.

322 The hand of little employment hath the daintier

sense.

36-v. 1.

323 Love will not be spurr'd to what it loathes.

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324 Ay and no, too, [is] no good divinity. 34—iv. 6.

2-v. 2.

9 Determine.

Keep company.

$ 2 Cor. i. 17---19.

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