Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
GEORGE HERBERTThere is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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The offender never pardons.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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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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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Never was strumpet faire.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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