Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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 Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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The eye will have his part.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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