Thomas Tusser Quotes

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Sweet April showers Do spring May flowers.

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At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

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In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all
Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall
Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled
Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child.

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Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

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Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

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As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

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Yet true it is, as cow chews cud
And trees at spring do yield forth bud,
Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind turns none to good.

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Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.

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Such mistress, such Nan,
Such master, such man.

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Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

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Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

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HAST thou a Friend, as heart may wish at will?
Then use him so, to have his friendship still.
Would'st have a Friend, would'st know what friend is best?
Have God thy friend who passeth all the rest.

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To death we must stoop, be we high, be we low,
But how and how suddenly few be that know -,
What carry we then but a sheet to the grave,
To cover this carcass, of all that we have?

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The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.

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