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Good swimmers at length are drowned.

George Herbert

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Book Gains Need
The wife is the key of the house.
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House Key Wife
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.]
GEORGE HERBERT

King Void Years
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Men Remedy Thing
Where there is peace, God is.
GEORGE HERBERT

God Life Peace
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Beauty Husband Lover Poor
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Dead Give Restore
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fool Hour Wit
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Lying Reason Spurs
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
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Bees Eye Lose
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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Play Well Win

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

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