Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERTReligion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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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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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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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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The eye will have his part.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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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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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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