In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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All that shakes falles not.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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