"A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand."
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"Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore."
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"He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there."
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"A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]"
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"Humble Hearts have humble desires."
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"It is better to have wings then hornes."
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"Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy."
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"Good workemen are seldome rich."
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"To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe."
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"The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh."
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"Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy."
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"Thinke of ease, but worke on."
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"Yeeres know more then bookes."
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"Love is the true price of love."
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"He that endures is not overcome."
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"Beare with evill, and expect good."
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"When war begins, then hell openeth."
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"Everyone thinks his sack heaviest."
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"The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it."
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"God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison."
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