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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.

George Herbert

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Covertly Rude Speak Truth
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
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.
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Mirth Needs Sin
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Bird Feather Hand
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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King Loss Spring
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Bees Eye Lose
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Distance Envy Greatness
Better never begin than never make an end.
GEORGE HERBERT

End Laziness Speaker
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Cow Lost Tail
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Fool Hour Wit
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Bee Gain May Steal
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Morning Night Soul

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.

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