Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
GEORGE HERBERTOf the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Prettiness dies first.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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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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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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