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?
GEORGE HERBERTLittle pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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The eye will have his part.
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All that shakes falles not.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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