True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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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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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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