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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.

George Herbert

In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Dead Give Restore
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Bee Gain May Steal
Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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God Thee Will
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Age Example Need
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Live Well Well
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.
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Mirth Needs Sin
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
When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Hell Openth War
Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Country Hath People
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Ever Himself Look Well
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Land Sea Settle
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
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Eat Greedy Horse
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Bacon Chimney Think

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