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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

George Herbert

Heresie is the school of pride.
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Honour Pride School
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Beauty Husband Lover Poor
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Giving Soul Sweet
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
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
The eye will have his part.
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Eye Hope Part Vision
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Fine Ill Littles Wrapt
Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Foxes Girdle Mate
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
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Drink Frog Gossip Talk
Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Haste Meet Seldom
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
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Gratitude Thankful Thanksgiving
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Emotion Much Spaniard
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Built House Lawyer
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Another Feet Half Straw

True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

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