Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]

You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is, but always to be blest.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is, but always to be blest.

Prevention is better than cure.

Prevention is better than cure.

For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
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For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.

No lock will hold against the power of gold.

No lock will hold against the power of gold.

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.