To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
GEORGE HERBERTOf all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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