Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.

We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.

We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.

The body is more drest then the soule.

The body is more drest then the soule.

Everyone has his besetting sin.

Everyone has his besetting sin.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
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As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
"In love there is no lack," thus I begin;
"Fair words make fools," replieth he again;
"Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I;
"As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow";
"Fortune assists the boldest," I reply;
"A hasty man," quote he, "ne'er wanted woe";
"Labour is light where love," quote I, "doth pay";
"Light burden's heavy, if far borne";
Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away";
"Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn.
And having thus awhile each other thwarted
Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then
by stars at their nativities.

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then
by stars at their nativities.