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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

George Herbert

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Folly Grief House
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Chasten Emotion People Version
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Pay People Surety
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Horse Long Race
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Poor Reason Weigh
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Deeds Wise
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Need Occasion Require
Heresie is the school of pride.
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Honour Pride School
An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Deed Honor Ill
No Alchymy to saving.
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Alchymy People Save
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Men Miserable Pennies
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Encounter Goeth Hath
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Goest Grief People World
Anothers bread costs deare.
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Bread Cost Dear
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

Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

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