When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
GEORGE HERBERTHe that burnes most shines most.
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Weening is not measure.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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