God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
GEORGE HERBERTMan is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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