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As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

A clere conscience is a sure carde.

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

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