It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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