There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
GEORGE HERBERTHee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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