Every one fastens where there is gaine.
GEORGE HERBERTTo have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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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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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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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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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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In 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 penny spar’d is twice got.
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