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Though it rain daggers with their points downward.
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All my joys to this are follyNaught so sweet as melancholy.
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
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The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
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I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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It is most true, stylus virum arguit,--our style bewrays us.
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I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.
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Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
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Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.
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Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
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Rob Peter, and pay Paul.
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Penny wise, pound foolish.
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Women wear the breeches.
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Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
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Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.
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Can build castles in the air.
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
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A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
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They do not live but linger.
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Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
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The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.
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A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.
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They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.
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We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword.
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See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
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Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
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Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
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Like him in AEsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.
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Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
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Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
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Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.
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Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.
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Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not.
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Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.
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Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
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Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.
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And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
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Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
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