Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERTWhether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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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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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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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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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Prettiness dies first.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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