"When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates."
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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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"God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes."
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"Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole."
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"A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison."
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"When prayers are done, my Lady is ready."
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"The resolved mind hath no cares."
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"If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight."
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"Keep good company, and you shall be of the number."
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"The bird loves her nest."
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"Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine."
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"With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us."
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"You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth."
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"Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise."
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"A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion."
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"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."
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"This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered."
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"Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives."
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"Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year."
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"Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance."
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