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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	false_a	know_v	true_a	4,114	5	4.5846	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39728	A treatise of the sports of wit	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1675 (1675)	Wing F1237; ESTC R20266	20,309	62

only to enjoy their conversation in this A List of some of their Proverbs PRoverbs must have the stamp of Custome to make them currant with the World but every one for their private use may coyn what ones they please as are these following Who spends all his life in getting maintenance for it is like him who sold his horse to get him Provender Death and Absence differ only in this That Absence is but a short Death and Death a long Absence Who gives soon redoubles the benefit and he that is long a giving diminishes it as much Vice and Vanity differ only in this that Vice lays the Egg and Vanity hatches the Chicken An uncertain Nature is like a Sea with shifting Sands where thereis no Sailing without a Plummet in hand or like a Weapon loose in the Hilt there is no using of it with any confidence Distracted Prayers are like Penelopes Web always to begin anew and never ended Without a little dispute one can never enter into discourse and with too much one can never get out again Who takes every acquaintance for a Friend is like him who takes every Pebble Stone for a Diamond A Friend is a Cabinet-piece to be sought all the World over whilst we find acquaintances in every street The greatest Wisdom is to know how much Thought we are to give to every thing Who cheaply sells anothers Fame makes but the Market to buy his own Noble Women are like Sacred Relicks Beheld with reverence but let Men come To touch them once their reverence is gone Men were never more easily Cannonised then now When he may be counted a Saint who is not altogether a sinner Who thinks to help the truth with a lie is like him who helping his Master on Horsback threw him quite over on the other side Innocence were an excellent Iewel if it were not so easily counterfeited and so hard to know the true from the false Every one flatters Fortunate Princes but only hope flatters the Unfortunate The faults of Princes are like sore eyes made worse with handling Of all Devils bless us from those who play the Devil for Gods sake God help you is only an alms for those that sneeze To injure one and then ask him pardon is a Bastonado with a Courtesie Many cry A merry life and a short who if they knew how short it were would not be so merry as they are It is a good World for the Devil when every one speaks ill of one another and no body speaks ill of him Your Conscience-mongers have a dangerous trade of it who go so far to keep others from falling into Hell as they often fall into 't themselves A generous Nature more esteems an ounce of Honor then a pound of Profit Fair looks often deceive us as Brass guilt looks fairer then Gold it self He who cut off all who were too long for his Iron Bed and rackt out all who were too short was a less Tyrant then they who would force every one to their opinions Love without Fear is childish and Fear without Love is slavish both together make the best composition Whilst sickness is but a dying life or living death none truly live but those who are in health Men may force our actions and aw our words but none can force or aw our thoughts A Complementer or as the French say An accomplé menteur is the Rack of conversation that sets every ones Ioynts a stretching where he comes Truth goes the nighest way whilst falshood goes always the furthest way about The vulgar are Iudges without judgment and Authors without authority In Women the first thoughts are the best but in Men the second Youth invents better but Age perfects the Invention Wit is ripe when grown to Wisdom and Wisdom rotten when grown to Craft The Dignity of Obedience is lost when we dispute what is commanded Every one is artificer of their own Fortune but Fortune like Mercury is not made of every Wood. The Wise spare their words the witty spends them but the Fool casts them away Who wears French Cloaths without French behavior look just like Dogs in Doublets Iealous States hold one another like Woolfs by the Ears and only fear keep them from hostility Who foolishly imitates is like that Ass who cutting off his Ears to become more like a Horse became neither good Horse nor Ass neither Honesty has almost lost its English signification and signifies as with the French only Courtly behavior The more Danger the more Honor but the less Danger the more Prudence Whe Wise wonder at nothing the Fool at every thing Who counts the World an Inn and not their Home make no great difficulty of leaving it Better Religion in the lump then Wyer drawn as it is and in the whole piece then minced into so many Sects The manner of giving more then the gift endears the benefit and some oblige more in denying then others do in granting We are all but sucking Children of this World and have need of Wormwood to wean us from it As North and South which differ only by an Individual Line may be made the whole Heavens distant by going to the extremity of either Pole so Modern Controvertists c. Who believe well and live ill or live well and believe ill are culpable alike Pleasure is as it is fancied and a Beggar takes as much in scratching as greatest Princes in what they fancy most Education is double refined Nature and the Soul of the Soul as the other is but the Soul of the Body Spiritual and Corporal Physitians make their Medicaments too bitter if they would sweeten them a little they would have far more Patients and Proselytes There is as small choice in as in rotten Apples none better then the other and you know not which is the worst Pleasure in Excess is like a Boor when they are drilling him A question whether the pleasure or pain be more Who have deceived you bid them good morrow and good d'en but for the rest of the day have no more to do with them The way of doing things now is first I 'll warrant you and then who would have thought it Repents when it is too late Promises without Performance give the lie unto themselves A little Pride well becomes great Ladies and begets Reverence but too much is only for petty Persons and makes them but less esteemed Though the World be foul and dirty yet they may walk clean enough who but carefully pick out their way but who runmadly dash dash seem neither to care how they bespatter others and defile themselves It is easie to throw ones self into a Precipice but not easie to get out again Our Bodies being but the Chariot of our Souls wherein we run the race of this mortal life serves but for little when the race is run and we arrived to immortality but only as a Trophy of our Victory Wit without Discretion to manage it is but a