Good workemen are seldome rich.
GEORGE HERBERTIf folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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A little labour, much health.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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All that shakes falles not.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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