A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERTWe do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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