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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

George Herbert

Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Foxes Girdle Mate
It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Catch Fish Good Net
The life of man is a winter way.
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Men Way Winter
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
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
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Goest Grief People World
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Children Morsel Own
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Folly Grief House
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Encounter Goeth Hath
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Bird Feather Hand
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Age Example Need
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Dry Slander Tempest
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Dust Flesh Mortality
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Lying Perish Trust
All our pompe the earth covers.
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Cover Earth Pompe

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