True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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A little labour, much health.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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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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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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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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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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