Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERTThou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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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 offender never pardons.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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