Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.

Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken
to is silent.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken
to is silent.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.

Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
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Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?

A name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth.

A name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth.

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven
pillars.

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven
pillars.

Most men are bad.

Most men are bad.