He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
GEORGE HERBERTThe life of man is a winter way.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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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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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Prettiness dies first.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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