You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERTThey that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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In 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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Never was strumpet faire.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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