To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
GEORGE HERBERTWater, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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