Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
GEORGE HERBERTTo 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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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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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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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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