Good is the mora that makes all sure.
GEORGE HERBERTThe best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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