He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
GEORGE HERBERTHee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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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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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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