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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

George Herbert

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
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Little Own Patient
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Folly Grief House
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Cutt Steel Tongue
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Mean Solitude Use
All that shakes falles not.
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People Shakefall
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Bird Feather Hand
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Debt Grow Rich
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Discontened Easie Men
Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ice Night Trust
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Dry Slander Tempest
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Land Ocean Sea

Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

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