Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
GEORGE HERBERTWho eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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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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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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