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Music helps not the toothache.

George Herbert

In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Beauty Flame Light
The scalded head feares cold water.
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Cold Fear Water
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Fasten Gaine People
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Egg Hard Shave
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Land Ocean Sea
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
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Bed Dangerous Fire
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Giving Soul Sweet
Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ice Night Trust
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Distance Envy Greatness
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.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mirth Needs Sin
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Attend Men World

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