A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
GEORGE HERBERTOnly a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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