There is small différence (to the eye of the world ?) in

being nought and being thought so.

. To be employ'd in useless things, is to be half idle.

. To go as fast as a good friar that is invited to dinner.

. ’Tis vain to speak reason where ’twill not be heard.

. Call not a surgeon before you are wounded.

. That sick man is not to be pitied who has his cure in his sleeve.

. To swallow an ox and be choked with the tail.