1609 English Proverbs / Page 12
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An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.222.
An hour may destroy what an age was building.223.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.224.
An idle mind is the devil's workshop.225.
An illiterate king is a crowned ass.226.
An old man is a bed full of bones.227.
An old wrinkle never wears out.228.
An open door may tempt a saint.229.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.230.
An oven and mill are nurseries of news.231.
An unfortunate man would be drowned in a tea-cup.232.
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.233.
Anger and haste hinder good counsel.234.
Anger dies quickly with a good man.235.
Anger edges valor.236.
Anger is a short madness.237.
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.238.
Anger is shortlived in a good man.239.
Anger punishes itself.240.
Another man's poison is not necessarily yours.