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Good swimmers at length are drowned.

George Herbert

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Mean Meditation Soul
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Blame Peter Saint
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
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Lying Reason Spurs
Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Haste Meet Seldom
Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Die Know Live People
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Need Patience Speak
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Chasten Emotion People Version
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Confidence Inspirational Sport
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
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 is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Ask Book Sounsell
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Dust Flesh Mortality
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Mean Solitude Use

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

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