It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
GEORGE HERBERTAstrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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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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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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