Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERTHe puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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The wife is the key of the house.
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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 is angry at a feast is rude.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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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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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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No Alchymy to saving.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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