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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.

George Herbert

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
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Bacon Chimney Think
When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Hell Openth War
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Courtesy Desire News
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow
Never was strumpet faire.
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Create Faire Strumpet
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Fishing Jew Pot Wine
All that shakes falles not.
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People Shakefall
The eye will have his part.
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Eye Hope Part Vision
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Angry Feast Rude
He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Pay People Surety
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
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Salt Smell Taste
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Honour Profit Religion

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