Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
GEORGE HERBERTShall 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?
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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