A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
GEORGE HERBERTIn solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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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 Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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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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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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