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Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.

by William Shakespeare Found in: General Sayings,
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She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
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She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.

by William Shakespeare Found in: General Sayings,
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His golden locks time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
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His golden locks time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,
But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.

by George Peele Found in: General Sayings,
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He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is
courteous.

He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is
courteous.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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The great put the little on the hooke.

The great put the little on the hooke.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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My hair is grey, but not with years.

My hair is grey, but not with years.

by John Byrom Found in: General Sayings,
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I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my read more

I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.

by John Byrom Found in: General Sayings,
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]

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Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.

Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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