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For I light my candle from their torches.

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.

The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.

Go then merrily to Heaven.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.

A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?

Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.

Call a spade a spade.

See one promontory one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

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

From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword.

They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.

We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.

One religion is as true as another.

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.