In a long journey straw waighs.
GEORGE HERBERTEstate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Who 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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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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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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