George Herbert Mead quote: "To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."

Society is unity in diversity.
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The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each oth...
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Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting the...
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To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living ...
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The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does no...
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The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishe...
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Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these imag...
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Man lives in a world of meaning.
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A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
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Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determina...
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In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal ...
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No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
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One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
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To build castles in Spain.
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A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. [A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]
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Never was a miser a brave soul.
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For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
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In doing we learn.
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Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep th...
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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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One sword keeps another in the sheath.
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
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The eyes have one language everywhere.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
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Be thrifty, but not covetous.
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He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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One enemy is too much.
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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
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All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
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Living well is the best revenge.
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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
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Night is the mother of counsels.
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Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good dige...
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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
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Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver ...
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Spend not on hopes.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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The resolved mind hath no cares.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Comparisons are odious.
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No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. [No sooner is a Temp...
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Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean. [Lat., Vicisti, Galloloae.]
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Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone? Had He life, or had He none? ...
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a bird in t...
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Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
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Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]
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Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
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A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy. [He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.]
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Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, ...
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The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against s...
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Poverty is the mother of health.
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Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away...
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An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.
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Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
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A little and good fills the trencher.
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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
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A crooked log makes a strait fire [A crooked log makes a straight fire.]
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Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd, Redeem ...
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The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. [The wolf must die in his own skin.]
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You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]
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A trade is better then service.
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A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
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February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]
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Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou ...
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For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
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Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. [Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
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When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there ...
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Prosperity lets goe the bridle. [Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
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A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun ...
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Stay a little and news will find you.
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Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart ...
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Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at th...
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in...
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.]
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Woe be to him that reads but one book.
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Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whate...
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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
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Love and a cough cannot be hid.
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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The offender never pardons.
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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever re...
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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
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Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
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Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.
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Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
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That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
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The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wi...
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Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.
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To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure. [To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by me...
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Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God...
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Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
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Every mile is two in winter.
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Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance, Ma...
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure ...
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He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide int...
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall ...
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To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
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To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]
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Time is the rider that breaks youth.
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be hands...
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Half of the world knows not how the other half lives.
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The best mirror is an old friend.
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You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
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Storms make oaks take deeper root.
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst t...
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
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A great ship askes deepe waters. [A great ship asks deep waters.]
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick o...
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Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My musick shows...
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before ...
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Valour that parleys is near yielding.
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Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
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Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
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The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
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A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]
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To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
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You must loose a flie to catch a trout. [You must lose a fly to catch a trout.]
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Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]
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A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt
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Living well is the best revenge
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The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.
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The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
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The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
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The chiefe boxe of health is time.
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The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.
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The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
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The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
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The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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The body is sooner drest then the soule.
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The body is more drest then the soule.
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The blind eate many a flie.
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The bit that one eates, no friend makes.
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The bird loves her nest.
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The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children.
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The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
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The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
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The best mirrour is an old friend.
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The best bred have the best portion.
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The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.
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The beades in the Hand, and the Divell in Capuch (or cape of the cloak).
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The Bathe of the Blackamoor hath sworne not to whiten.
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The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.
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The back-doore robs the house.
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The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.
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The absent partie is still faultie.
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That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
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That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.
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That which two will, takes effect.
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That which sufficeth is not little.
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That is not good language which all understand not.
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Talking payes no toll.
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Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.
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Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.
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Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.
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Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.
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Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.
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Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.
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Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.
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Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.
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Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.
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Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
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Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
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Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
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Suffer and expect.
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Such a Saint, such an offering.
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Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
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To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

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To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

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