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Music helps not the toothache.

George Herbert

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Eat Greedy Horse
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Horse Long Race
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Night Wisdom Wise
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Mean Meditation Soul
It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Betetr Horne Wing
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Beauty Flame Light
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Door Enter House Leave
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Body Pain Wine
The eye will have his part.
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Eye Hope Part Vision
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Affection Brain Heat
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Need Occasion Require
The wife is the key of the house.
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House Key Wife
Conversation makes one what he is.
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Conversation Make People Success
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
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Food Smell Taste

Music helps not the toothache.

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