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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.

George Herbert

Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Medicine Mony People Ready
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Egg Hard Shave
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Ask Book Sounsell
Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Foxes Girdle Mate
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Bees Eye Lose
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Age Example Need
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Country Cutting People Thrice
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Little Own Patient
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Folly Jollity Smack
The way is an ill neighbour.
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Ill Neighbour Way
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Morning Night Soul
Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Better Health People Suffer
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Everyone Fault Time
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Children Morsel Own

Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.

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