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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Heresie is the school of pride.
Heresie is the school of pride.
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless
you have been sparing.
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless
you have been sparing.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;
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When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Untimely storms makes men expect a dearth.
To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure.
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To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure.
[To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.]
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
