If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
GEORGE HERBERTThat 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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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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