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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

George Herbert

In a long journey straw waighs.
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Journey Long Patience Weight
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Encounter Goeth Hath
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Egg Hard Shave
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Mother Nose Wipe
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
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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King Void Years
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Goest Grief People World
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Men Miserable Pennies
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Cutt Steel Tongue
It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Catch Fish Good Net
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Confidence Inspirational Sport
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
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Age Need Treasurer Youth
Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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All Good Mora Sure

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

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