The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERTA little labour, much health.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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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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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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