Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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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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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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