Good workemen are seldome rich.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a long journey straw waighs.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Weening is not measure.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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