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Heresie is the school of pride.

George Herbert

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Gratitude Thankful Thanksgiving
The scalded head feares cold water.
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Cold Fear Water
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Drink Frog Gossip Talk
It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Betetr Horne Wing
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Fire Ship Water
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
Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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All Good Mora Sure
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Credit Eye Touched
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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King Loss Spring
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Fasten Gaine People
In a long journey straw waighs.
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Journey Long Patience Weight
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
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Absent Dead House
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Compromise Fat Lawsuit
When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Mirth Needs Sin
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Need Patience Speak

Heresie is the school of pride.

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