"No hair so small but hath his shadow."
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"No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]"
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"No Alchymy to saving."
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"Never was strumpet faire."
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"Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers."
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"Neither bribe nor loose thy right."
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"The soule needs few things, the body many."
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"The slothful is the servant of the counters."
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"The singing man keepes his shop in his throate."
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"The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon."
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"The scalded head feares cold water."
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"The Rich knowes not who is his friend. [The rich knows not who is his friend.]"
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"The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]"
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"The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony."
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"The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time."
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"The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull."
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"The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not."
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"The noise is greater then the nuts."
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"The Mr. absent, and the house dead."
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"The morning Sunne never lasts a day."
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