By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue 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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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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A little labour, much health.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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The eye will have his part.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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