Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERTIn thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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