It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue 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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A little labour, much health.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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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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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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