True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERTLittle pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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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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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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