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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.

George Herbert

To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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Gain Spend Techheth
The eye will have his part.
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Eye Hope Part Vision
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Gentle Heart Love
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Encounter Goeth Hath
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
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Honour Profit Religion
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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Angel Sunday Think
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Everyone Fault Time
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
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
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Debt Grow Rich
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Mean Solitude Use
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Compromise Fat Lawsuit
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
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

He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.

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