It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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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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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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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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