True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERTTo take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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