Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	soul_n	spirit_n	3,520	5	5.4686	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36291	A miscellania of morall, theologicall and philosophicall sentances [sic] worthy observation.; Polydoron	Done, John.; Donne, John, 1604-1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing D1857; ESTC R14930	35,703	226

best countenance of truth is to be what we seeme To seeme what wee are not is player-like It is a passible vertue to speake well a praisable to do well the one resembles the shadow the other the body but wisely to hold ones peace makes a due Zenith The censure of others troubles not a well planted minde To contend with fooles is to be in the same parallell The blessing of God keepes company with vertuons actions but that Gods blessing many Rich-men bragge of is but eight in the hundred or worse Hee who lives poorely in rich havings is like him that 's a cold in a furr'd gowne the cause onely inward An understanding soule in a grosse body is like a good leg in a winter boote but a foolish spirit in a well featured body is like a mishapen spindle shanke in a bombasted stocking It is a rancke courteosie when a man is forc't to thanke for his owne againe He that thinkes too well of many for the most part betrayes himselfe to the borrower He that loves all alike loves none well and he that hates and suspects all loves himselfe too much What thou judiciously holdest lawdable in others seeke to make reall in thy selfe Those who prayse others thereby to bee commended themselves resemble horses when they knibble one another A palpable flatterer is like a horstealer that strokes the horse with sweete-gloves Whose ende is to get vp and ryde him out of his pasture Craft reqvires more witt than plaine honestie doth which makes knaves so nimble and officious A lyar without memory is like one has lost his purse to a reckonning A young vnthriftie heyre that is greene inward black outward is like a morning dreame wakes and finds all gone Hee that oversets his confidence upon false projects is like him that handes a loose haulser falls over-bord He that delights in doing brave evill as they call Swaggering c. is like him that sweares vildly in some learned language The first and last thing we should doe upon sleepe is to pray to and prayse God If the wine be good bee thou the more wary for if thou drinkest drunke thou defacest the Image of God in thee that is thy reason Hee that drinkes drunke Cudgels his owne braine To Swagger in drinke is to put a horrid Visour upon an il-favored face There is no cause why any man should bee proud bee they Lords Knights Gentlemen c. For if they consider themselves truely they are but Millers Cookes and Dungmen Millers in grinding their Meale Cookes in decocting it Dungmen by carying and expulsing excrements Hee may well clayme a boat-sons place in Barkleyes Shippe of fooles that befooles himselfe and he then blowes the whistle when hee proclaymes his vayne confidence The difference betwixt Fortitude desperate dareing it is betweene the Sunne and common Fyer the one produceth much good the other consumes and destroyes what is put into it and at last goes out it selfe A Gamester that depends his meanes on the hazard is like the weather about Michaelmasse now fayre then foule but in the adversitie of losse hee 's winters fowle way to a lender It is impossible thrivers by play should still prosper for their best is losse waste of time their thrift vndoing of others Ordinary play is an ungodly exercize for it is the whetsstone of anger the father of Blasphemous oathes the murtherer of many mens estates and the box an Iron-fac't bold pickpocket An honest playn-meaning man amongst Cheators is like one that sleeps on an Ant-hill A noted coward is like a Dogge running through a Towne with a bottle at his tayle Esteeme of thy selfe but justly as thou art and no more for the world will doubt thee in that and strive to make thee lesse It is a running plague to a horse when a hastie asse rides him You lame the nimble diligence of a Taverne when you come on the score Hee who offers any thing to sale diminisheth the estimation thereof If you 'l put a false friend on the Test offer to borrow mony of him and hee 'l like lead and copper fly away but his Silver shall still remaine his owne on the coppell of excuses A borrower is the veriest subject in a Kingdome if without a pawne a meere slave to censure He that goeth into a bawdihouse putteth one foote amongst theeves the other amongst murtherers A craftie fellow is somewayes proffitable to a wise man viz. makes him wary Drunkenesse looseth a mans reputation as a bad gamester doth his mony both commonly eyther laughing or quarrelling He that is drunke finds alwayes something in his way because his fantasie is full of figures He that is a true judge of himselfe acquits him from the censure of others Chymicall philosophers say Facilius est construere quàm destruere But fooles have experience to the contrary There is a sport in recounting witty jeasts which who so over-stretcheth becomes Buffone to the Auditory Hee that showes store of money amongst needie persons whets a borrower to cut his courteosies purse or a theefe to steale it Fayned excuses in a friend are like false dice with a gamester He that still talkes for his owne endes should bee worne by his Auditors as woemen weare fringe or lace about the tayle peece Drinking frindship is but drunken kindnesse That is an idle tale that neyther profits the teller nor hearer but a pernitious one that benefits the teller and hurts the hearer Hee that over-feeds his sences doth like him that feasts his enemies Hee that hath good businesse to doe and wants meanes to effect it is like a shippe ryding vpon her Anchor in the wast of victualls It is vanity to put more confidence vpon this life than on a winde at Sea but it is wisedome to have tackling ready for all changes Fooles are like the Sea waves flying from the breath of good counsell We are apt to conceipt of our selves farre beyond the worlds esteeme and to finde repentance too late with his servant had I wist That poverty is justly contemptible which is purchassed by following vice but that not shāefully gotten by acquiring vertuous sence Who give themselves to be the companions of vice in the end become the slaves of it When thou findest thy selfe apt to frailty make the passion of our Lord Iesus Christ thy Looking glasse It is wisedome to be stayed by the advice of many wise man rather than to run with thy fantasie in the field of opinion Things out of the common course of trade neede have an extraordinarie investigator He that gives himselfe to ebriety becomes the servant of letcherie and at last is attended on with povertie Meditation of holinesse is as glowing Cinders but hearty prayer a flame reaching heaven or Elias his fierie Chariot If every one would mend but one wee should have the golden age againe Auxilliarie Souldiers may bee compared to gamesters the Cheefetaines the Setters the common Souldiers the Monies which for honour