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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.

George Herbert

A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Married Men Stake
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Built House Lawyer
It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Bow Fish Rule Sure
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Egg Hard Shave
All that shakes falles not.
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People Shakefall
Heresie is the school of pride.
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Honour Pride School
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Lying Reason Spurs
Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Money Mony Women
Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Fear Hope Path Right Wrong
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Gentle Heart Love
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Alcohol Drink Glass
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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End Furthest Thinke
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Attend Men World
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Affection Brain Heat
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
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.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mirth Needs Sin

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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