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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]

George Herbert

Better never begin than never make an end.
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End Laziness Speaker
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Night Wisdom Wise
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Encounter Goeth Hath
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Fasten Gaine People
A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Bees Hony Maketh
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Need Occasion Require
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
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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House One People Trust
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
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Dog Fire Nut
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Credit Eye Touched
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
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Deception Feet Physicians
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Goest Grief People World

A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]

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