Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]

Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]

Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.

Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.

A hatt is not made for one shower.

A hatt is not made for one shower.

But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more

But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

Going as if he trod upon eggs.

Going as if he trod upon eggs.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Wishing, of all employments is the worst.

Wishing, of all employments is the worst.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.