You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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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He that burnes most shines most.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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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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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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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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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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