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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.

George Herbert

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Burden Light Long
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Distance Envy Greatness
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Encounter Goeth Hath
The eye will have his part.
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Eye Hope Part Vision
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Need Patience Speak
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
The way is an ill neighbour.
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Ill Neighbour Way
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Mean Sky Success
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Fish Morsel Take
It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Bow Fish Rule Sure
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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Play Well Win
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Body Pain Wine
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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House One People Trust
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Covertly Rude Speak Truth
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

Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.

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