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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

George Herbert

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
Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Better Health People Suffer
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Bees Know Spy
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
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Fish Morsel Take
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Brest Side Squrres
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Broken Ill Look Ustom
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Book Gains 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
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Children Morsel Own
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Cheerful Encouragement Positivity
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Children Father First
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Eat Greedy Horse
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Discontened Easie Men
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Blame Peter Saint

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