The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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The offender never pardons.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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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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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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