Good workemen are seldome rich.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen war begins, then hell openeth.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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The life of man is a winter way.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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