The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
GEORGE HERBERTBy 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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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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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 that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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