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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.

George Herbert

A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Mean Measure Run Year
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Angry Feast Rude
He that burnes most shines most.
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Buriesm Most Emotion People Shine
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
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Know Shoe Wear Wring
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Salt Smell Taste
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Distance Envy Greatness
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Everyone Fault Time
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
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Chasten Emotion People Version
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Foul Horse Stalk
Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Good Rich Work
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Leopard Observe Spot
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Need Occasion Require

He that goeth farre hath many encounters.

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