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He that burnes most shines most.

George Herbert

Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Salt Smell Taste
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Children Father First
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Honour Profit Religion
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Betimes Rise Some Thing
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Covertly Rude Speak Truth
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
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
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Call Chuse Olives
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet
He that burnes most shines most.
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Buriesm Most Emotion People Shine
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Bees Eye Lose
While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Advise Discreet Fool
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Body Pain Wine
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Bird Feather Hand
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Atheism Atheist Devil

He that burnes most shines most.

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