"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart."
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"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife."
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"Change of weather is the discourse of fools."
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"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak."
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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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"Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them."
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"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."
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"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Better a tooth out than always aching."
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"Scalded cats fear even cold water."
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"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."
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"Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other."
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"The worse the passage the more welcome the port."
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"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
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"The more wit the less courage."
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