A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERTHe that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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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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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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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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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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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Prettiness dies first.
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