A little labour, much health.
GEORGE HERBERTIn the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Prettiness dies first.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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