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.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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