Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERTGod is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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