An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that chastens one, chastens 20.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Who 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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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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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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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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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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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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