Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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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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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The offender never pardons.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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A little labour, much health.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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