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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

George Herbert

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Ask Book Sounsell
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Need Occasion Require
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Lying Reason Spurs
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Cow Lost Tail
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Compromise Fat Lawsuit
A child correct behind and not before.
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Behind Children Correct
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Dead Give Restore
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Fishing Jew Pot Wine
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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King Void Years
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Folly Grief House
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Mean Sky Success
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
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Bed Dangerous Fire
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Chasten Emotion People Version
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet
Prettiness dies first.
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Die First Prettiness

Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

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