Proverbs from John Milton

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• A96 A false ALARM
• A228 Never less ALONE than when alone (He is never alone who is accompanied with noble thoughts)
• A234 AMBITION is the last affection¹ a noble mind can put off
• B27 To go from BAD to worse
• B364 The BIRD is flown
• B406 The BISHOP has put his foot in it
• B464 It runs in a BLOOD
• B718 That is a BULL, sir
• C439 Every CLOUD has a silver lining
• C663 You measure everyone's CORN by your own bushel
• D383 DISPRAISE by evil men is praise
• E20 To be all EARS
• E30 EARTH must go to earth (Dust to dust)
• F386 It fades (withers) like a FLOWER
• F391 The fairest FLOWERS (freshest colors) soonest fade
• F584 FORBEARANCE (Omittance, Sufferance) is no quittance (acquittance)
• G375 To cut the GORDIAN KNOT
• H49 My better HALF
• H403 HELL is broke loose
• J37 Like JANUS, two-faced
• J45 It is ill (no, not good) JESTING (meddling) with edged tools
• J66 JOHN-A-NOKES and John-a-Stiles
• K61 The KING can do no wrong
• L12 The LABORER is worthy of his hire
• L117 The more (Many) LAWS the more (many) offenders (sins)
• L226 They are for LICENSE not for liberty
• L237 Tell a LIE and find the truth
• L312 A LION in the way
• M13 To be suspended like MAHOMET's tomb between heaven and earth
• M126 Every MAN is the architect of his own fortune
• M417 A wicked MAN is his own hell
• M755 To mince the MATTER
• M792 The golden MEAN is best
• M1192 As many as there are MOTES in the sun
• N147 Ill NEWS flies faster than good
• P351 PIPING HOT
• P600 The PROFIT of the commonwealth should be preferred to a private pleasure
• S281 Where no SHAME is there is no fear
• S953 To leave one (To lie, To be) in the SUDS (sands)
• T203 THINGS past cannot be recalled
• T301 In TIME of prosperity friends will be plenty, in time of adversity not one among twenty
• T311 Take TIME (occasion) by the forelock, for she is bald behind
• T576 TRUTH is always the strongest