Good workemen are seldome rich.
GEORGE HERBERTWho eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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