Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.

What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.

Great businesses turne on a little pinne.

Great businesses turne on a little pinne.

Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?

Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?

Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.

Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.

The way of transgressors is hard.

The way of transgressors is hard.

The Smith and his penny both are black.

The Smith and his penny both are black.

He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
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He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
[He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.

I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.