To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERTThe cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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A little labour, much health.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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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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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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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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