Heresie is the school of pride.
GEORGE HERBERTIn 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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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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