In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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The offender never pardons.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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