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A father who whipped his son for swearing and swore at him while he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction. - [Oaths] A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him. - [Teaching] A guilty conscience is like a whirlpool, drawing in all to itself which would otherwise pass by. - [Conscience] A lazy hand is no argument of a contented beast. - [Laziness] A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves. - [Names] A tender conscience is a stronger obligation than a prison. - [Obligation] A wounded conscience is able to unparadise paradise itself. - [Conscience] All the while thou livest ill, thou hast the trouble, distraction, inconveniences of life, but not the sweets and true use of it. - [Conduct] An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. - [Cheerfulness] As the sword of the best-tempered metal is the most flexible; so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors. - [Courtesy] Associate with men of judgment, for judgment is found in conversation, and we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company. - [Associates] Be fearful only of thyself; and stand in awe of none more than thine own conscience. There is a Cato in every man; a severe censor of his manners. And he that reverences this judge will seldom do anything he need repent of. - [Conscience] Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed contempt. - [Familiarity] Beard was never the true standard of brains. - [Beard] Cheaters must get some credit before they can cozen, and all falsehood, if not founded in some truth, would not be fixed in any belief. - [Deceit] Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little. - [Pleasure] Christians are called saints, for their holiness; believers, for their faith; brethren, for their love; disciples, for their knowledge. - [Christian] Conceit not so high a notion of any as to be bashful and impotent in their presence. - [Bashfulness] Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. - [Contentment] Curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man;, sometimes to the danger of his choking. - [Curiosity] Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the marriage state. Look not therein for contentment greater than God will give, or a creature in this world can receive, namely, to be free from all inconveniences. Marriage is not, like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear without clouds. - [Matrimony] Deformity is either natural, voluntary or adventitious, being either caused by God's unseen Providence (by men nicknamed chance), or by men's cruelty. - [Deformity] Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet. - [Fame] Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. - [Fame] Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it. - [Fancy] Displaying page 1 of 8 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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