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Put his shoulder to the wheel.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."

Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.

Birds of a feather will gather together.

Like the watermen that row one way and look another.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him.

[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.

Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.

They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.

'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.

The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.

crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.