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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

George Herbert

You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Drink Frog Gossip Talk
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Mother Nose Wipe
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Enough Soon Wells
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
GEORGE HERBERT

End Lasts Particular
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Needle Past People Thread
No Alchymy to saving.
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Alchymy People Save
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
GEORGE HERBERT

Call Chuse Olives
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
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Confidence Inspirational Sport
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Sea Settle
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Flame Light

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

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