He that chastens one, chastens 20.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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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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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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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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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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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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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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