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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

George Herbert

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Horse Long Race
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Good Make Pig Shaft Tail
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
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
An old dog barks not in vain.
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Bark Dog Vain
Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Die Know Live People
Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Good Rich Work
Heresie is the school of pride.
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Honour Pride School
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Foul Horse Stalk
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Goest Grief People World
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Egg Hard Shave
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Fool Hour Wit
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Cheerful Encouragement Positivity
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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King Void Years

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