"To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary."
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"A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire."
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"He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much."
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"Those that God loves, do not live long."
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"Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone."
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"An Idle youth, a needy Age."
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"War is death's feast."
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"A great ship asks deep water."
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"Better a bare foote then none."
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"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."
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"Service without reward is punishment."
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"Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]"
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"Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening"
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"Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores."
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"Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world."
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"Death keeps no calendar."
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"A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe."
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"Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune."
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"Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]"
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"Hee that is a master must serve (another)."
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