Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

James Howell

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A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

three secret two

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

sculpture shapes art

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

aviation flight

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

snuff fingers men

Man's best candle is his understanding.

candle understanding men

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

distance real loss

This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.

inns hotel life

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

friends choices book

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

errands political soul

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

hypocrisy names sleep

Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

wine men blood

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

tomorrow yesterday today

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

prosperity adversity twenties

Words and works eat not at one table.

tables

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

thee easter seems

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

nature doe advice

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

physicians weight-loss loss

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

more will man respect

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

early who fame sleep