Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERTHe is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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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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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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