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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

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
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Married Men Stake
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Fish Morsel Take
He that burnes most shines most.
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Buriesm Most Emotion People Shine
Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Astrology Find Matter People
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
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Enough Soon Wells
In a long journey straw waighs.
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Journey Long Patience Weight
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
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 life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Bees Know Spy
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Bed Dangerous Fire
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Atheism Atheist Devil
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Absent Dead House
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

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