If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
GEORGE HERBERTWater, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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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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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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