It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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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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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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