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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.

George Herbert

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet
In a long journey straw waighs.
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Journey Long Patience Weight
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
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
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
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Need Patience Speak
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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End Lasts Particular
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Beauty Husband Lover Poor
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
Prettiness dies first.
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Die First Prettiness
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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Beauty Flame Light
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Mean Sky Success
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Leopard Observe Spot
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Bird Feather Hand
Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Die Know Live People

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