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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

George Herbert

When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Door Enter House Leave
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Ever Himself Look Well
In a long journey straw waighs.
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Journey Long Patience Weight
An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Deed Honor Ill
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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End Lasts Particular
Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ice Night Trust
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Land Sea Settle
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
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
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Lying Perish Trust
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Fear Grief Money
Where there is peace, God is.
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God Life Peace
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Everyone Fault Time
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Mean Measure Run Year
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Children Love Smell
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Need Patience Speak

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

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