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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.]

George Herbert

Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Drowned Length Swimmer
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Mother Nose Wipe
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Brest Side Squrres
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Needle Past People Thread
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
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Fair Ready Window
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
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Food Smell Taste
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Dry Slander Tempest
Never was strumpet faire.
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Create Faire Strumpet
A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Payment Penny People Twice
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Fire Ship Water
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Dust Flesh Mortality

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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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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