Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
GEORGE HERBERTBy no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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