Live upon trust,
And pay double you must. [ Proverb ]

Dissembled sin is double wickedness. [ Proverb ]

The swift hour flies on double wings. [ Seneca ]

Hypocritical piety is double iniquity. [ Proverb ]

A reconciled friend is a double enemy. [ Proverb ]

Double charging will break even a cannon. [ Proverb ]

Like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect. [ William Shakespeare ]

Living upon trust is the way to pay double. [ Proverb ]

Misfortune, like a creditor severe.
But rises in demand for her delay;
She makes a scourge of past prosperity
To sting thee more and double thy distress. [ Young ]

A sorrow shared is but half a trouble,
But a joy that's shared is a joy made double. [ Proverb ]

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views.
Life's little cares and little pains refuse?
Shall he not rather feel a double share
Of mortal woe, when doubly armed to bear? [ Crabbe ]

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray. [ Goldsmith ]

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [ La Fontaine ]

A gift with a kind countenance is a double present. [ Proverb ]

Now began
Night with her sullen wing to double-shade
The desert; fowls in their clay nests were couched.
And now wild beasts came forth, the woods to roam. [ Milton ]

Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

An head with a good tongue in it, is worth double the price. [ Proverb ]

Few hearts that are not double, few tongues that are not cloven. [ Proverb ]

Cant is properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie. [ Carlyle ]

Impatience makes every ill double, but content makes it none at all. [ Proverb ]

He gets a double victory who overcomes himself, when he does his enemy. [ Proverb ]

He does me double wrong, that wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. [ William Shakespeare ]

Trouble makes every sad accident a double evil, and contentedness makes it none at all. [ Proverb ]

All things are double, one against another. Good is set against evil, and life against death. [ Ecclus ]

True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. [ South ]

A double task to paint the finest features of the mind, and to most subtle and mysterious things give color, strength, and motion. [ Akenside ]

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. [ Kett ]

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. [ Buddha ]

Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract is wanting, in the other the heart. [ La Bruyere ]

Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers, - they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners and things that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. [ Mary Wortley Montagu ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]