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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.

George Herbert

Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Brabling Need
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
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Borrowed Flame
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Fishing Jew Pot Wine
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Bees Know Spy
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Fire Soldier Water
A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Payment Penny People Twice
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
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
Conversation makes one what he is.
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Conversation Make People Success
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Enough Soon Wells
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Good Make Pig Shaft Tail
Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Fear Hope Path Right Wrong
The way is an ill neighbour.
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Ill Neighbour Way
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Poor Reason Weigh
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Country Cutting People Thrice

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