Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
GEORGE HERBERTReligion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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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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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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