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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

George Herbert

In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Country Cutting People Thrice
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
Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Country Hath People
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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May Spring
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Dead Give Restore
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
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Beauty Husband Lover Poor
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Discontened Easie Men
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Medicine Mony People Ready
Where there is peace, God is.
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God Life Peace
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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All Good Mora Sure
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Beare Eye Jest Religion
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

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

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