Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERTAn upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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The eye will have his part.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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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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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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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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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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