Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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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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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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