To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
GEORGE HERBERTA discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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No Alchymy to saving.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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