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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.

George Herbert

When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Goest Grief People World
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Beauty Flame Light
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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End Furthest Thinke
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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