Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.


George Herbert

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Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
THE DHAMMAPADA
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
BIBLE
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my...
BIBLE
Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. (2:29).
LUKE
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thin...
BIBLE
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
BIBLE
For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
BIBLE BIBLE
For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
BIBLE
Slogans are mere wordsuck...
GABRIEL THY
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and t...
GEORGE HERBERT
For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an...
BIBLE
Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, ...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE
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GEORGE HERBERT
And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in t...
BIBLE
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
BIBLE
And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
BIBLE
Defer not thy well-doing; be not like St. George, who is always a horseback, and never rides on.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, ...
BIBLE
And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God:...
BIBLE
Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone? Had He life, or had He none? ...
GEORGE HERBERT
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation...
BIBLE
I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
BIBLE
I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and...
A.W. TOZER
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor...
BIBLE
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
BIBLE
Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
BIBLE
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who...
MARY CLEMMER (MARY CLEMMER AMES)
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten...
FRANCIS QUARLES
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as...
BIBLE
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit...
BIBLE
Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me...
BIBLE
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faul...
SOCRATES
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faul...
SOCRATES
In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. F...
JOHN WESLEY
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first...
MARGARET COURTNEY
Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
JOHN DONNE
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the g...
BIBLE
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.
ANONYMOUS
Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant...
BIBLE
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup...
BIBLE
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
BIBLE
When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so ...
COMPTON GAGE
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
BIBLE
Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
BIBLE
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
BIBLE
"Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.
OLASOT
Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his h...
BIBLE
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass
HORACE
Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?
CHARLES LAMB
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and t...
BIBLE
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me;...
BIBLE
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians ...
BIBLE
In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to wor...
BIBLE
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, an...
BIBLE
Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame, Sprung fro...
GEORGE HERBERT
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with t...
BIBLE
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
BIBLE
If you pray for thy neighbour, sow a seed of love in thy heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is b...
BIBLE
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break ...
BIBLE
Thy confidence, shall be thy courage.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN
Do what thy manhood bids thee do from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest d...
SIR RICHARD BURTON
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts s...
EMMET FOX
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE
If you pray for thy neighbour, you sow a seed of love in thy heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I ...
BIBLE
He who betters a man betters himself.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ...
JOHN LOGAN
May it preserve thee from sorcery, from thy equals and thy kin! Undying be, immortal, exceedingly vi...
ATHARVA VEDA
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Let thy body be thy holy temple.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Let thy life be thy gracious treasure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Let thy pure act be thy prayer.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Let thy holy temple be thy body.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought aga...
BIBLE
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
ARAB PROVERB
Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
BIBLE
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying
BIBLE
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest d...
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest di...
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy...
BIBLE
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreh...
BIBLE
But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. (Psalms 13:5)
BIBLE
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
BIBLE
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
BIBLE
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
BIBLE
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
BIBLE
Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.
HENRY IRVING
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many...
BIBLE

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To build castles in Spain.
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A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. [A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]
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Never was a miser a brave soul.
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For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
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In doing we learn.
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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One sword keeps another in the sheath.
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
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The eyes have one language everywhere.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
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Be thrifty, but not covetous.
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He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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One enemy is too much.
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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
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All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
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Living well is the best revenge.
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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
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Night is the mother of counsels.
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Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good dige...
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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
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Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver ...
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Spend not on hopes.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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The resolved mind hath no cares.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Comparisons are odious.
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No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. [No sooner is a Temp...
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Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean. [Lat., Vicisti, Galloloae.]
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Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone? Had He life, or had He none? ...
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a bird in t...
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Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
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Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]
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Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
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A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy. [He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.]
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Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, ...
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The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against s...
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Poverty is the mother of health.
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Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away...
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An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.
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Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
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A little and good fills the trencher.
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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
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A crooked log makes a strait fire [A crooked log makes a straight fire.]
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Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd, Redeem ...
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The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. [The wolf must die in his own skin.]
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You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]
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A trade is better then service.
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A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
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February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]
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Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou ...
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For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
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Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. [Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
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When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there ...
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Prosperity lets goe the bridle. [Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
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A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun ...
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Stay a little and news will find you.
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Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart ...
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Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at th...
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in...
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.]
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Woe be to him that reads but one book.
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Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whate...
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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
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Love and a cough cannot be hid.
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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The offender never pardons.
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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
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Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
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Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.
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Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
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That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
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Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.
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Every mile is two in winter.
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Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance, Ma...
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To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
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To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]
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Time is the rider that breaks youth.
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Half of the world knows not how the other half lives.
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The best mirror is an old friend.
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You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
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A great ship askes deepe waters. [A great ship asks deep waters.]
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Valour that parleys is near yielding.
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Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
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Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
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The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
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A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]
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To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
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You must loose a flie to catch a trout. [You must lose a fly to catch a trout.]
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Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]
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A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt
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Living well is the best revenge
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The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.
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The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
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The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
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The chiefe boxe of health is time.
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The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.
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The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
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The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
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The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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The body is sooner drest then the soule.
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The body is more drest then the soule.
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The blind eate many a flie.
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The bit that one eates, no friend makes.
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The bird loves her nest.
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The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children.
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The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
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The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
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The best mirrour is an old friend.
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The best bred have the best portion.
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The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.
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The beades in the Hand, and the Divell in Capuch (or cape of the cloak).
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The Bathe of the Blackamoor hath sworne not to whiten.
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The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.
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The back-doore robs the house.
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The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.
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The absent partie is still faultie.
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That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
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That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.
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That which two will, takes effect.
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That which sufficeth is not little.
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That is not good language which all understand not.
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Talking payes no toll.
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Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.
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Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.
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Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.
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Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.
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Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.
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Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.
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Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.
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Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.
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Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.
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Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
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Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
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Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
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Suffer and expect.
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Such a Saint, such an offering.
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Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
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The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
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The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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The hole calls the thiefe.
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The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.
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The hearts letter is read in the eyes.
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The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
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The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.
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The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
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The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]
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The great would have none great and the little all little.
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The great put the little on the hooke.
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