Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERTHe that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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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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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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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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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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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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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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