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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

George Herbert

A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Married Men Stake
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
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Credit Eye Touched
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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Fear God Knowledge Men Void
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Fine Ill Littles Wrapt
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
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Good Hard Newes
Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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All Good Mora Sure
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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End Furthest Thinke
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Beare Eye Jest Religion
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
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
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Medicine Mony People Ready

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