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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

George Herbert

Anothers bread costs deare.
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Bread Cost Dear
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
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
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Age Example Need
It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Catch Fish Good Net
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
The offender never pardons.
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Forgiveness Literature Pardon
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 cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Cow Lost Tail
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Men Miserable Pennies
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Atheism Atheist Devil
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
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Night Wisdom Wise
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Betimes Rise Some Thing
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Bacon Chimney Think
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Dry Slander Tempest

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