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Good words are worth much, and cost little.

George Herbert

Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Good Make Pig Shaft Tail
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
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Cow Lost Tail
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Live Well Well
Prettiness dies first.
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Die First Prettiness
While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Advise Discreet Fool
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Mother Nose Wipe
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
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Ever Himself Look Well
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Door Enter House Leave
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Atheism Atheist Devil
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Poor Reason Weigh
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Deed Honor Ill
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Burden Light Long

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